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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A lift leads from the terrace to a private jetty with towels, deck-chairs, sun umbrellas and a beach bar. ▪ An hour later, taxiing across the glimmering surface of the lake, the floatplane approached the jetty . ▪ And the ships ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jetty \Jet"ty\, a. Made of jet, or like jet in color. The people . . . are of a jetty. --Sir T. Browne.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Jetty may refer to: Jetty , a variety of structures employed in river, dock, and maritime works Jetty, a term for an overhang (architecture) in the American colonial architecture Jetty (web server) , a pure Java based HTTP Server and Servlet Container Jettying ...
Usage examples of jetty.
As he helped Isabel from the boat onto the small jetty, he glanced up at where the bure was set, on the lushly covered hillside on a natural terrace overlooking the water.
Anchorage Bay, it was called, and in the previous century boats had tied up at the little jetty, there had been fishermen living in the row of cottages and cobles drawn up on the beach.
Not twenty feet away, on the edge of the jetty was a man sworn to kill Cowan on sight.
As their footsteps receded down the jetty, Steve Cowan got to his feet.
Captain Harbin Fashnalgid had seen his own face crudely portrayed on a red poster as he stepped ashore with Besi, after they had sailed the twenty miles from the jetty in the marshlands.
Harry watched jubilantly as the soldiers moved forward quickly now, one upon one, dropping into the large boats at the far end of the makeshift jetty.
Ned and Saxby stood with Lobb watching men with tongs heating up a mast band in a rudimentary furnace before slipping it into place over the completed new mast, and while carpenters nearby shaped up the new yard, an excited seaman ran up from the jetty.
But Omi shook his head and said something he did not understand and continued across the square, down the foreshore, past the cauldron, and on to the jetty.
Once on the jetty, Omi turned and called back to the guards on the trapdoor.
Mustering as much grace as he could, Blackthorne knelt and put his hands flat on the sand floor of the jetty, as Omi had done, and bowed as low as Omi.
As one lands on Pinang one is impressed even before reaching the shore by the blaze of color in the costumes of the crowds which throng the jetty.
DEEP within the heart of the mountains around the pool, the shredded corpse of a young male trackie lay on the deserted jetty.
If on any river which winds through alluvial plains a jetty is so constructed as to deflect the stream at any point, the course which it follows will be altered during its subsequent flow, it may be, for the distance of hundreds of miles.
A score of yachts lies moored to a wooden jetty, and one or two owners have been stirred by the sunlight of a spring anticyclone, into taking the tarpaulins off cabin roofs and putting the cushions out to air.
By the time Erik got to the point where the old jetty reached the northmost dock, he found a company of Palace Guards waiting for him.