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Jointer

noun
1.
A long carpenter's plane used to shape the edges of boards so they will fit together.  Synonyms: jointer plane, jointing plane, long plane.



Joint

adjective
1.
United or combined.  "Joint owners"
2.
Affecting or involving two or more.  "Joint ownership"
3.
Involving both houses of a legislature.



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"Jointer" Quotes from Famous Books



... out our plans with compass and rule? We must be arithmeticians and geometricians of no mean attainments, how else can we adapt the proportion and size of the cask to the measure of its contents? Ay, sir, my heart laughs in my body when we've bravely laboured at the staves with jointer and adze and have gotten a brave cask in the vice; and then when my journeymen swing their mallets and down it comes on the drivers clipp! clapp! clipp! clapp!—that's merry music for you; and there stands your well-made cask. And of a ...
— Weird Tales, Vol. II. • E. T. A. Hoffmann

... scattered splinters of wood, and a varied, lively, brisk noise in the air; the saw gnawed the wood, choking with wicked joy; the beams, wounded by the axes, moaned and groaned drily; the boards cracked sickly as they split from the blows they received; the jointer squeaked maliciously. The iron clinking of the chains and the groaning creaking of the sheaves joined the wrathful roaring of the waves, and the wind howled loudly, scattering over the river the noise of toil and drove ...
— Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky

... it is entirely practicable to do so without interruption of service on multiple arc circuits, even those of very high voltage; but they require great precaution and involve considerable risk to the jointer, and where possible the circuit to which the connection is to be made should previously be cut dead. Where the voltage is not dangerous to human life, almost any service connection can be ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, Sep. 26, 1891 • Various



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