Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Provided with joints; formed with knots or nodes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having joints; articulated; full of nodes; knotty

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  • adjective Having joints.
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of joint.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having joints or jointed segments

Etymologies

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joint (“noun”) +‎ -ed

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See joint (verb)

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Examples

  • Is a little thin jointed in his upper body, but his frame has the potential to add more growth. ...

    USATODAY.com 2005

  • Phil taking Larry to task for persisting in calling his jointed bamboo fishing rod a "pole!"

    Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat St. George Rathborne

  • This is helped, of course, by the fact that geckos 'toes are backwards-jointed, meaning that when they flex their toes they curl upward rather than downward, allowing them to peel their toes from the surface to which they are stuck.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Heather McDougal 2008

  • This is helped, of course, by the fact that geckos 'toes are backwards-jointed, meaning that when they flex their toes they curl upward rather than downward, allowing them to peel their toes from the surface to which they are stuck.

    Gecko Feet: Natural Marvel Heather McDougal 2008

  • However, crustaceans also share common features such as jointed, paired appendages, and two pairs of antennae.

    Crustacea 2008

  • However, crustaceans do share common features such as jointed, paired appendages, and two pairs of antennae.

    Arthropoda 2007

  • Some writers, like Collins, refer to a "jointed" or "hinged" axle, but

    The Pioneer Steamship Savannah: A Study for a Scale Model United States National Museum Bulletin 228, 1961, pages 61-80 Howard Irving Chapelle

  • Well, we know that one essential form of comic fancy lies in picturing to ourselves a living person as a kind of jointed dancing-doll, and that frequently, with the object of inducing us to form this mental picture, we are shown two or more persons speaking and acting as though attached to one another by invisible strings.

    Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic Henri Bergson 1900

  • Graves of this period are found to be oriented either north or south, and the bodies in them usually have the head separated from the body; sometimes it is clear that the bodies have been "jointed" so that they might occupy less space.

    Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life 1895

  • However, crustaceans also share common features such as jointed, paired appendages, and two pairs of antennae.

    Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth 2010

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