Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Joint (-s)
joint (-s), n. [OFr jointe.] (webplay: wood).
- Stalk; harvest stubble; [metonymy] rows of a field; shallow valleys formed into farmland for the seeding process.
- Node; knot; inter-node of a stalk; space between segments of a plant.
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