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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