dictionary definitions for "jutting"


From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:

  jutting
      adj : extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the
            jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected
            buttresses"; "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards
            sticking over the end of his truck" [syn: projected,
            projecting, protruding, {sticking(p)}, {sticking
            out(p)}]
      n : the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion,
           projection, jut]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jutting \Jut"ting\, a.
     Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- Jut"ting*ly, adv.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Jut \Jut\ (j[u^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jutted; p. pr. & vb.
     n. Jutting.] [A corruption of jet.]
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     1. To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body;
        as, the jutting part of a building. "In jutting rock and
        curved shore." --Wordsworth.
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              It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
                                                    --Sir T.
                                                    Browne.
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     2. To butt. [Obs.] "The jutting steer." --Mason.
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