jointed, a.
(ˈdʒɔɪntɪd)
[f. joint n. + -ed2.]
1. a. Furnished with, constructed with, or having joints (see the various senses of the n.). spec. in Geol.: cf. joint n. 5.
| 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxxii. 81 They ben wel ioynted and myghtely boned. a 1547 Surrey æneid iv. (1557) G ij b, The throwing spirit, and iointed limmes to loose. 1667 Milton P.L. vii. 409 Or under Rocks thir food In jointed Armour watch. 1721 Pope Let. to E. Blount 3 Oct., I saw her sober over a Sampler, or gay over a joynted Baby. 1821 J. Macculloch Geol. Classification of Rocks viii. 129 In a few instances, from the extreme shortness of the prisms, the columnar passes to a tabular, or a lamellar and jointed structure. 1863 D. T. Ansted Gt. Stone Bk. ix. 133 The harder kinds of sand-rock are always jointed. 1880 Huxley Crayfish i. 24 The crayfish has a jointed and segmented body. 1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 489/2 The contrast between granite that is widely jointed and that which is closely jointed and generally shattered is easily seen in many localities. |
b. In comb. with qualifying word: Having joints of a specified kind.
| 1591 Spenser Muiopot. 121 Beeing nimbler ioynted then the rest. 1797 M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 188 This head is placed upon a narrow jointed portion of the worm. 1842 Tennyson Locksley Hall 169 Iron-jointed, supple-sinew'd, they shall dive, and they shall run. 1895 Outing (U.S.) XXVI. 369/1 My single short-jointed rod. |
2. Bot. Having or appearing to have joints; separating readily at the joints; as a specific vernacular name.
| 1597 Iointed Glassewoort [see glasswort]. 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. s.v. Jointed... Applied to the root..—to the stem or culm, in corn and grasses— to the leaves, when one leaflet grows from the top of another. 1821 S. F. Gray Nat. Arrangement Brit. Plants II. 160 Leaves..knotty, jointed, or smooth. 1839 J. Lindley Sch. Bot. 4 If a stem is swelled at the part where the leaves grow, and capable of being snapped across, or apparently so, it is called articulated or jointed, as in Stellaria Holostea, and Geraniums. 1843 C. C. Babington Man. Brit. Bot. 31 Raphanus Raphanistrum (L.)..Jointed Charlock. 1913 C. Pettman Africanderisms 234 Jointed cactus, Opuntia pusilla, a dangerous weed. 1971 J. E. Lousley Flora Isles of Scilly 268 J[uncus] articulatus L. Jointed Rush. Native. |
Hence ˈjointedly adv., connectedly; ˈjointedness, quality or state of being jointed.
| 1846 Worcester, Jointedly, in a jointed manner. Smith. 1877 Tinsley's Mag. XX. 207 When he could talk faintly and jointedly. 1881 Whitney in Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 22 Articulation, in this its literal sense of jointedness. |