Jutting vbl. sb.

[f. JUT v.² + -ING¹.] The action of JUT v.²; concr. a projection or protruding part; = JETTING vbl. sb.² 1, JUT sb.² 1.

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1565–73. Cooper, Thesaurus, Proiectus, the iutting or leaning out of a building. Ibid., Proiectura, the iutting or leaning out in pillers or other building.

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1644. Evelyn, Diary, 17 Nov. On the battlements of the Church … you would imagine yourself in a town, so many are the cupolas, pinnacles, towers, juttings.

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1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., I. 233. There is scarce a strait … or the jutting of a promontory, that has not been minutely described.

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1859. Jane R. Edkins, Chinese Scenes (1863), 54. A time-worn pagoda, its numberless corners and juttings, edged with bronze and brass.

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