Word Meanings - JOINTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule , a long straight rule,
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The act or process of making a joint; also, the joints thus produced. Jointing machine, a planing machine for wood used in furniture and piano factories, etc. -- Jointing plane. See Jointer, 2. -- Jointing rule , a long straight rule, used by bricklayers for securing straight joints and faces.
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- PLANKING
1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4. - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - STRAIGHT-JOINT
Having straight joints. Specifically: Applied to a floor the boards of which are so laid that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves. Brandle & C. In the United States, applied to planking or flooring - PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - PLANE TREE
See PLANE - PLANISHING
a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t. Planishing rolls , rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness. - MACHINER
One who or operates a machine; a machinist. - PIANOGRAPH
A form of melodiograph applied to a piano. - STRAIGHT-OUT
Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence, unqualified; thoroughgoing. Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe. - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - PLANARIOID
Like the planarians. - PLANOMETER
An instrument for gauging or testing a plane surface. See Surface gauge, under Surface. - PIANO
Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. - JOINTWEED
A slender, nearly leafless, American herb (Polygonum articulatum), with jointed spikes of small flowers. - PROCESSIVE
Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge. - PROCESSIONALIST
One who goes or marches in a procession. - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - GRAMME MACHINE
A kind of dynamo-electric machine; -- so named from its French inventor, M. Gramme. Knight. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - UNJOINT
To disjoint. - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - BURRING MACHINE
A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances. - MELOPIANO
A piano having a mechanical attachment which enables the player to prolong the notes at will. - COMPLANATE
Flattened to a level surface. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - DISJOINT
Disjointed; unconnected; -- opposed to conjoint. Milton.