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straight-joint

straight-joint adjective: whose boards are laid so that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves.

Adjective

straight-joint (not comparable)

  1. Whose boards are laid so that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves.
  2. (US) Put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.

Questions about straight-joint

What does straight-joint mean?
Straight-joint means whose boards are laid so that the joints form a continued line transverse to the length of the boards themselves.
What part of speech is straight-joint?
Straight-joint is an adjective.

Words near straight-joint in the dictionary

  1. straight-faced
  2. straight-forward
  3. straight-from-the-shoulder
  4. straight-hearted
  5. straight-jacket
  6. straight-joint
  7. straight-laced
  8. straight-out
  9. straight-pipe
  10. straight-piped
  11. straight-pipes

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