Obs. or dial. [Of same origin as JUT v.1] The act of striking or knocking against an obstacle; the shock of collision; a push, thrust or shove against a resisting body. Also fig.
a. 1553. Udall, Royster D., III. iii. (Arb.), 43. Yond commeth Roister Doister … I will not see him, but giue him a iutte in deede.
1569. Sir J. Hawkins, Voy. Guinea, in Arb., Garner, V. 220. I thought it rather better to abide the jutt of the uncertainty, than the certainty.
1607. Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr., II. vi. 59. The least iutt that is [being able] to put out of ioynt the foote that hanged loose before.
1782. Miss Burney, Cecilia, II. iii. The fiend, with a jut of his foot may keep off the old from a dread of the future.
