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Jutting definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

JUT'TING, ppr. Shooting out; projecting.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking, sticking out] n
1: the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion, projection, jut, jutting]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jut Jut (j[u^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jutting.] [A corruption of jet.] 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. It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To butt. [Obs.] ``The jutting steer.'' --Mason.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Jutting Jut"ting, a. Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- Jut"ting*ly, adv.

Moby Thesaurus

beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, bold, eminent, emissile, excrescent, excrescential, extruding, impendence, impendency, impendent, impending, incumbent, lowering, outstanding, overhang, overhanging, overhung, pending, prognathous, projecting, projection, prominent, protrudent, protruding, protrusile, protrusive, protuberant, protuberating, salient, superincumbent