[f. JET v.2 + -ING2.]
† 1. Projecting, protruding, jutting. Obs.
a. 1661. Fuller, Worthies (1840), III. 396. Some drop, some stream down, partly over, partly through a jetting rock.
1707. Sloane, Jamaica, I. p. xcviii. His belly a little jetting out or prominent.
1812. Scott, Rokeby, II. xv. Yon earth-bedded jetting stone.
† 2. Darting, flitting. Obs.
1688. J. Clayton, in Phil. Trans., XVII. 991. The Pica Glandarea, or Jay, is much less than our English Jay … it has both the same Cry, and suddain jetting Motion.
3. Spouting, spurting.
1886. R. F. Burton, Arab. Nts. (abr. ed.), I. 5. They came to a jetting fountain.
1898. Zangwill, Dreamers Ghetto, viii. 308. He strikes a dagger into his own heart, to sprinkle mockingly with the jetting black blood the ladies and gentlemen around.
