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Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To extend outward or upward beyond the limits of the main body; project: synonym: bulge.
  • intransitive verb To cause to jut.
  • noun The act or condition of jutting.
  • noun Something that protrudes; a projection.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To strike; shove; butt.
  • To project forward; extend beyond the main body or line: as, the jutting part of a building: often with out.
  • noun That which juts; a projection.
  • noun A jostle; a shove; a thrust.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That which projects or juts; a projection.
  • noun obsolete A shove; a push.
  • intransitive verb To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To butt.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun something that sticks out
  • verb intransitive to stick out

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb extend out or project in space
  • noun something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
  • noun the act of projecting out from something

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English jutten, from gete, iutei, jetty, projecting upper story, from Old French jetee; see jetty.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English, alteration of jet, cognate with jetty

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Examples

  • The way you call jut to tell me to look at the stars.

    simplymine Diary Entry simplymine 2003

  • The upper stories project; and from these again jut windows of delicate turned latticework in old brown wood, like big bird-cages.

    A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

  • At other times the Grey valley is green and pleasant, excepting where the masses of grey rock from which it has its name jut out over the river.

    Grey Town An Australian Story Gerald Baldwin

  • Most of the stuff that comes before and after the "jut" is innocuous.

    Obama Holds Sizable Lead In Today's Tracking Polls 2009

  • You see the surf still behind me, there's a number of these cuts (ph) that kind of jut out.

    CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2007 2007

  • We here are south of that area, kind of jut out on an island.

    CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2006 2006

  • Being also a first year student, he had come in with his ju'jut'su and between them they had won the battle, but not until the Jap had been hung over a picket fence with a jagged wound in his shoulder.

    Triple Spies 1918

  • The space was like an awkward kitchen nook - the kind of jut in which a dining set never fits.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed 2010

  • Hey, you guys brought Dan on board for urban planning, why not jut co-opt the best local source at Seattle Bubble?

    Seattle Home Prices Rising « PubliCola 2010

  • They jut from girls 'lids like an underbite, fanning the air in great whips of painted wind, and they form the fluttering basis of a trend spreading faster than conjunctivitis.

    Up front: Eva Wiseman Eva Wiseman 2010

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