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JUTTING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of projecting out from something
Synonyms:
jut; jutting; projection; protrusion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("jutting" is a kind of...):
change of shape (an action that changes the shape of something)
Derivation:
jut (extend out or project in space)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary
Example:
a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck
Synonyms:
jutting; projected; projecting; protruding; relieved; sticking; sticking out
Classified under:
Similar:
protrusive (thrusting outward)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb jut
Context examples:
The sun had shone out in the evening, and I had come down with my fishing-rod (for I had promised Boy Jim to go with him to the mill-stream), when what should I see but a post-chaise with two smoking horses at the gate, and there in the open door of it were my mother’s black skirt and her little feet jutting out, with two blue arms for a waist-belt, and all the rest of her buried in the chaise.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So close was it that the point ripped a gash in the jutting edge of his linen cyclas.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here and there, through the dense haze which surrounded them, there loomed out huge pinnacles and jutting boulders of rock: while high above the sea of vapor there towered up one gigantic peak, with the pink glow of the early sunshine upon its snow-capped head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I would station a score of archers here in the pass, with all our pennons jutting forth from the rocks, and as many nakirs and drums and bugles as we have with us, so that those who follow us in the fading light may think that the whole army of the prince is upon them, and fear to go further.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a toilsome march over broken ground and through snow, which came often as high as the knee, yet ere the sun had begun to sink they had reached the spot where the gorge opens out on to the uplands of Navarre, and could see the towers of Pampeluna jutting up against the southern sky-line.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As he spoke the cog rasped along the edge of the reef, and a long white curling sheet of wood was planed off from her side from waist to poop by a jutting horn of the rock.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A straight sword by his side and a painted long-bow jutting over his shoulder proclaimed his profession, while his scarred brigandine of chain-mail and his dinted steel cap showed that he was no holiday soldier, but one who was even now fresh from the wars.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
