Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: jointed
IPA transcription: [dʒ'ɔɪnɪd]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: jointed
    Meaning: having joints or jointed segments;
Usage examples
  • Thus in New Caledonia the rain-makers blackened themselves all over, dug up a dead body, took the bones to a cave, jointed them, and hung the skeleton over some taro leaves.
  • I was struck especially by the curious movements of the legs of the three swathed and bandaged boatmen,--not stiff they were, but distorted in some odd way, almost as if they were jointed in the wrong place.