backjoint

English

Alternative forms

back joint, back-joint

Etymology

From back +‎ joint.

Noun

backjoint (plural backjoints)

  1. (architecture, archaic) A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.
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    backjoint of a book

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “backjoint”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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