[var. of JET sb.3: cf. JUT v.2]
1. A jutting out; that which juts or projects; a projection or protruding point. Cf. JET sb.3 1.
1786. Burns, Brigs of Ayr, 132. Gaunt, ghastly, ghaist-alluring edifices, Hanging with threat’ning jut, like precipices.
1841. Moir, The Fowler, in Blackw. Mag., L. 300. The land’s extremest point, a sandy jut.
1842. Tennyson, Morte D’Arthur, 50. Stepping down By zig-zag paths, and juts of pointed rock.
1893. ‘Maxwell Gray,’ Last Sentence, II. vii. II. 98. The jut of the porch sheltered this window from the almost level snow-lines.
† 2. A jerking movement or swagger of the body; = JET sb.3 3. Obs. rare.
1709. Congreve, trans. Ovid’s Art Love, III. Wks. 1713, III. 1023.
| One has an artful Swing and Jut behind, | |
| Which helps her Coats to catch the swelling Wind. |
Jut sb.3, variant of JET sb.4 = GIST sb.3
