jutty

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noun

A projection in a building; or a pier (jetty).

Scrabble 15

Meanings

nounjutty (plural jutties)

plural jutties

  1. A projection in a building; or a pier (jetty).

    I was (says our friend) at the Naval Hospital, at Yarmouth, on the morning when Nelson, after the battle of Copenhagen (having sent the wounded before him,) arrived at the Roads, and landed on the jutty.

    1828, Various, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,
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    The taking of life being displeasing to Buddha, outside many of the temples old women and children earn a livelihood by selling sparrows, small eels, carp, and tortoises, which the worshipper sets free in honour of the deity, within whose territory cocks and hens and doves, tame and unharmed, perch on every jutty, frieze, buttress, and coigne of vantage.

    1910, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Tales of Old Japan

    This guest of summer, the temple-haunting martlet, does approve by his mansionry that the heaven's breath smells wooingly here; no jutty, frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle.

    c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
verbjutty (third-person singular simple present jutties, present participle juttying, simple past and past participle juttied)

present singular third person jutties · participle present juttying · participle past juttied · past juttied

  1. To project outwards.

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