Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no joint; without, or as if without, joints; hence, stiff; rigid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without a joint; rigid; stiff.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Without
joints ;unjointed .
Etymologies
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Examples
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He got nineteen in about two minutes, firing, finding a new target, firing again, throwing the bolt in a blur, watching them boys pivot when hit, then go slack as death sent them to paradise, them falling with the thud of jointless collections of bones and meat.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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We got out of our saddles even more slowly than we'd gotten into them and walked to the dining tent as if our legs were jointless blocks of wood.
Phil Caputo: Old Age and Elk Hunting in the Rocky Mountains 2007
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He got nineteen in about two minutes, firing, finding a new target, firing again, throwing the bolt in a blur, watching them boys pivot when hit, then go slack as death sent them to paradise, them falling with the thud of jointless collections of bones and meat.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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He got nineteen in about two minutes, firing, finding a new target, firing again, throwing the bolt in a blur, watching them boys pivot when hit, then go slack as death sent them to paradise, them falling with the thud of jointless collections of bones and meat.
A Bob Lee Swagger eBook Boxed Set Stephen Hunter 2009
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Let me die here! let me die here! were her words; remaining jointless and immovable, till Sally and Mrs. Sinclair hurried in.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
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In his shock, Ramon found himself entranced by the fluid way the thing moved -- sure as a cat, jointless as a tentacle.
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The fingers were too long and there were seven of them; the limbs looked oddly jointless.
The Eagle And The Nightingale Lackey, Mercedes 1995
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Expensive; strong; screed used as jointless floor surface or as bed for floor tiles; concrete tiles available in large variety of shapes and sizes.
Chapter 5 1988
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Two fingers bent grotesquely, jointless as worm flesh, for as yet neither bone nor muscle supported the structure underneath.
Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988
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Hands had short fingers, which along with the legs looked jointless as rubber.
The Hour of the Gate Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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