Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Jut \Jut\ (j[u^]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. ``In jutting rock and
curved shore.'' --Wordsworth.
It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
--Sir T.
Browne.
2. To butt. [Obs.] ``The jutting steer.'' --Mason.
Jutting \Jut"ting\, a.
Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- {Jut"ting*ly}, adv.
Source : WordNet®
jut
n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
a form [syn: {bulge}, {bump}, {hump}, {gibbosity}, {gibbousness},
{prominence}, {protuberance}, {protrusion}, {extrusion},
{excrescence}]
2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: {protrusion},
{projection}, {jutting}]
[also: {jutting}, {jutted}]
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" [syn: {projected},
{projecting}, {protruding}, {sticking(p)}, {sticking
out(p)}]
n : the act of projecting out from something [syn: {protrusion},
{projection}, {jut}]
jut
v : extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out";
"A single rock sticks out from the cliff" [syn: {stick
out}, {protrude}, {jut out}, {project}]
[also: {jutting}, {jutted}]
jutting
See {jut}