[Phonetic var. of JET v.2] intr. To project or protrude (prop. as a prominence beyond the main line). Often with out or forth.
1565–73. Cooper, Thesaurus, Meniana,… Buildings of pleasure hanging and iutting out.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, I. 23 b. This Processe iuttyng forth like a knot in a peece of wood.
1698. Tyson, in Phil. Trans., XX. 112. In a Snake’s Skin part of one Scale juts over another.
1741. Richardson, Pamela, I. 223. A little Summer-parlour, that juts out towards the Garden.
1819. W. Erskine, in D. Welsh, Life Dr. T. Brown, iv. (1825), 151–2. The island of Salsette juts out into the noble bay of Bombay.
1847. J. Wilson, Chr. North (1857), I. 250. The points and promontories jutting into the lake.
1886. Sheldon, trans. Flaubert’s Salammbô, 22. Palm trees here and there jutting beyond the walls did not stir.
† b. transf. To encroach upon. Obs.
1623. [see JET v.2 1 b, quot. 1594].
