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  • noun Plural form of jointing.

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Examples

  • The pipes and spiral seemed to be in perfect condition, since, thanks to their india-rubber jointings, they had yielded to all the oscillations of the balloon.

    Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

  • Joe succeeded in cutting the caoutchouc jointings above the car, but when he came to the pipes he found it more difficult to disengage them, because they were held by their upper extremity and fastened by wires to the very circlet of the valve.

    Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

  • These jointings are most distinct in animals of keen sensibility, and less so in those that are of duller feeling, in swine for instance.

    On the Parts of Animals 2002

  • For these also the point of origin is the heart; for the heart has sinews within itself in the largest of its three chambers, and the aorta is a sinew-like vein; in fact, at its extremity it is actually a sinew, for it is there no longer hollow, and is stretched like the sinews where they terminate at the jointings of the bones.

    The History of Animals 2002

  • Further jointings will bring them back into the tooth line.

    Chapter 6 1989

  • There should be a siphon trap at the bottom of each down pipe, unless it is employed as a ventilator to the drains, and then the greatest care should be exercised to insure perfect jointings, and that the outlet be well above all windows.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 Various

  • He erected in the centre of it a kiosk, the walls of which were six hundred feet long, and the cement and all the jointings of it were of silver.

    Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers

  • “Certainly not; but we did better—we examined the rungs of every chair in the hotel, and, indeed, the jointings of every description of furniture, by the aid of a most powerful microscope.

    The Purloined Letter 1917

  • The aspect of these mountains is particularly grim and wicked; they are worn old mountains, they tower overhead in enormous vertical cliffs of sallow grey, with the square jointings and occasional clefts and gullies, their summits are toothed and jagged; the path ascends and passes round the side of the mountain upon loose screes, which descend steeply to a lower wall of precipices.

    War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war 1906

  • This sheath is soon cut into a series of vertebral bodies by jointings appearing through the points where the cartilage is thickest and the notochord most constricted.

    Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata 1906

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