Careful Words

joint (n.)

joint (v.)

joint (adj.)

This sweaty haste

Doth make the night joint-labourer with the day.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 1.

  A joint of mutton, and any pretty little tiny kickshaws, tell William cook.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part II. Act v. Sc. 1.

The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,

That ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.