Makes joints, keeping one for military types (8)
I believe the answer is:
soldiers
'military types' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see an association between them that I can't see?
'makes joints keeping one' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'one' could be 'i' (Roman numeral) and 'i' is found within the answer.
The remaining letters 'solders' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'for' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for soldiers that I've seen before include "Members of the military" , "Strips of toast for egg dipping" , "Army fighters" , "More than one fighter" , "Military personnel" .)