straight-joint

English

Adjective

straight-joint (not comparable)

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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “straight-joint”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)