jutting : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: jutting	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for jutting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
jutting 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" Synonym(s): jutting, projected, projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p), sticking out(p) n the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion, projection, jut, jutting]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jutting \Jut"ting\, a. Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- {Jut"ting*ly}, adv.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jut \Jut\ (j[ucr]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. [bd]In jutting rock and curved shore.[b8] --Wordsworth. It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. --Sir T. Browne. 2. To butt. [Obs.] [bd]The jutting steer.[b8] --Mason.