straight-joint

  1. Adjective.  (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. Adjective.  (architecture, US) Put together without the tongue and groove, the pieces being laid edge to edge.

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