What is "jutting"

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

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.

n. That which juts or protrudes. vb. (present participle of jut English)

1. n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form [syn: bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]

2. the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion, projection, jutting]

3. [also: jutting, jutted]

1. 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)]

2. n. the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion, projection, jut]

1. v. extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff" [syn: stick out, protrude, jut out, project]

2. [also: jutting, jutted]

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