Definitions for jointer

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jointer joint·er

Spelling: [join-ter]

IPA: /ˈdʒɔɪn tər/

Jointer is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in jointer (eijnort).

Definitions for jointer

noun

1. a person or thing that joints.
2. a tool or machine used in making joints.
3. Agriculture. a device with a triangular head, used with a plow to bury trash.
4. Law Obsolete. a man who holds a jointure.
5. the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit motion; juncture.
6. a connection between pieces of wood, metal, or the like, often reinforced with nails, screws, or glue.
7. Anatomy, Zoology. the movable or fixed place or part where two bones or elements of a skeleton join. the form or structure of such a part, as a ball-and-socket, hinge, pivot, etc.
8. Chiefly British. one of the large portions into which a section of meat is divided by a butcher, as the shoulder or leg, especially as served at a dining table.
9. Slang.. Also called jay2 . a marijuana cigarette.
10. Slang. a dirty, cheap, or disreputable place of public accommodation or entertainment, especially a restaurant or nightclub. a place or establishment, as a hotel, restaurant, etc.:
11. Biology. a part, especially of a plant, insect, etc., connected with another part by an articulation, node, or the like. a portion between two articulations, nodes, or the like.
12. Botany. the part of a stem from which a branch or leaf grows; node.
13. Geology. a fracture plane in rocks, generally at right angles to the bedding of sedimentary rocks and variously oriented in igneous and metamorphic rocks, commonly arranged in two or more sets of parallel intersecting systems.
14. Mathematics. knot1 (def 12).
15. the joint, Slang. prison:
16. Slang: Vulgar. penis.

Idioms

1. out of joint, dislocated, as a bone. in an unfavorable state; inauspicious: out of keeping; inappropriate:

adjective

1. shared by or common to two or more:
2. undertaken or produced by two or more in conjunction or in common:
3. sharing or acting in common:
4. joined or associated, as in relation, interest, or action:
5. Law. joined together in obligation or ownership:
6. of or relating to both branches of a bicameral legislature.
7. pertaining to or noting diplomatic action in which two or more governments are formally united.

verb (used with object)

1. to unite by a joint or joints.
2. to form or provide with a joint or joints.
3. to cut (a fowl, piece of meat, etc.) at the joint; divide at a joint; separate into pieces at the joints:
4. Carpentry. to prepare (a board or the like) for fitting in a joint. to true the bottom of (a wooden plane body) to allow even movement along the surface of the work.
5. to file the teeth of (a saw) to uniform height.
6. Masonry. to finish (a mortar joint), as by striking.

verb (used without object)

1. to fit together by or as if by joints:

Origin of jointer

First recorded in 1645-55; joint + -er¹

Examples for jointer

When the land is wanted for oats or corn, a jointer should be used on the plow to insure burying all the crop.

The jointer is another tool where the use of the guard should never be omitted.

This broad stream was jointer Creek, and I ascended it to find a spot of high ground upon which to camp.

The edges of the boards to be joined should be finished with a jointer.

The jointer is a little plow which takes the place of the coulter and is attached to the plow-beam in the same manner.