[syn: jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p), sticking out(p)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Jutting \Jut"ting\, a.
Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- Jut"ting*ly, adv.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
jutting
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(p),
sticking out(p)]
n 1: the act of projecting out from something [syn:
protrusion, projection, jut, jutting]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
32 Moby Thesaurus words for "jutting":
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