Etymology
Origin of jointless
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You would assume she was a plant, there to make plain the links between the emphatic thwack of the sabar and the jointless human body, but the band seem genuinely surprised to see her.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 16, 2011
Parapodium, par-a-pō′di-um, n. one of the jointless lateral appendages of an annelid:—pl.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
He could with difficulty lift his hands to his head, and he walked as stiffly as if his legs had been jointless.
From Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The men stood as jointless as tin images.
From Montlivet by Alice Prescott Smith
Nelson, on arriving above, discovered that the chamber was lined with jointless brass about ten feet high and circular in shape.
From Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Harry Bates
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