Read full poem →Polished and stark, like traceries of stone,
The joints and knuckles hardened each to each.
And they are dead while waiting for the sea,
Dictionary Entry
The point where two components of a structure join, but are still able to rotate.
In a Sentence
“This rod is free to swing at the joint with the platform.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. jointsbetween jointsjoints interphalangealjoints expansion
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Poetry examples for “joints”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I thought just how Red -- Apples wedged
The Stubble's joints between --
And the Carts stooping round the fields
Read full poem →O Muses with delicate shins,
O Muses with delectable knee-joints,
When we splashed and were splashed with
Read full poem →practices as taking cattle off of muddy land and ending the grazing season before wheat
joints begin to lengthen noticeably in the spring.
Read full poem →And you think of the bubbling strains of song
That are bound between its pithy joints--
Then you cut out strings, with a bridge in the middle,
Read full poem →When he grew wan and pale;
His bending joints and drooping head
Show’d he began to fail.
Read full poem →No leaves it has, no thorny points;
It is a mass of knotted joints,
A wretched thing forlorn.
Read full poem →Its not that we hadn’t enough to eat at home, it’s just that my
grandmother always cooked economy joints and economy meat-
loafs and had the habit of saying, the minute you lifted the first
Read full poem →More hideous than their queen:
This racks the joints, this fires the veins, 85
That every labouring sinew strains,
Read full poem →But more through toil than age;
His square-turned joints, and strength of limb,
Showed him no carpet knight so trim,