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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.
  • PLANTIGRADA
    A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • 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.

 

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