joint-ache
An ache or pain in the joints.
| 1576 Baker Jewell of Health 60 The water of Iuniper beries..auayleth against all ioyntaches proceeding of colde. 1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden lix, It is good for the Sciatica and Joynt-Aches. |
b. transf. Applied to a disease of trees.
| 1601 Holland Pliny xvii. xxiv. I. 538 No trees are exempt from the worme, the blasting, and the ioint-ach [dolor membrorum]. |