Obs. Also 5 iutte, 6 iotye, iuttey, iuttie. [A phonetic variant of JETTY sb., a. F. jetée the action of throwing or casting, something thrown out, etc. The u for e as in JUT v.2]
1. A pier, breakwater or embankment: = JETTY 1.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, D j. I haue seen them made sum to sle the pie sum to sle the Tele vppon the Reuer: at the Iutte. Ibid., D j b. Iff youre hawke nym the fowle at the fer side of the Ryuer or of the pitt from you Then she sleeth the fowle at the fer Iutty.
1547. Act 1 Edw. VI., c. 14 § 8. For the mayntenaunce of Piers, Iutties, walles or banckes against the rages of the sea.
1547. Ld. Grey, etc. Lett. to Protector, 18 April (S.P., P.R.O., Foreign XIV. No. 121). ‘No fort,’ said we, ‘but a Iutty to amende the havon to save both your shippes and ours.’
a. 1653. G. Daniel, Idyll., ii. 21. The Iutty of Discretion … drowned in the Tide.
1804. Trans. Soc. Arts, XXII. 248. By a pier-head on the East and jutties on the West side.
b. Jutty-head = Jetty-head (JETTY sb. 4): see quot. 1750.
1559. in Boys, Sandwich (1792), 739. There must be two juttie heddes towards the sea.
1587. Fleming, Contn. Holinshed, III. 1547/1. When the two iuttie heads are once finished … so as the hauens mouth be perfected.
1750. Blanckley, Nav. Expos., 84. Jutty heads, Platforms standing on Piles which are made near the Docks, and project without the Wharfs for the more convenient docking and undocking Ships.
2. A projecting part of a wall or building; = JETTY sb. 2.
1519. Horman, Vulg., xxix. R vj. Buyldynge chargydde with iotyes is parellous whan it is very olde, Mœniane ædificia vetustate corrupta periculo sunt obnoxia.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Salidizo, the iuttie of an house, the bearing out of a wall.
1605. Shaks., Macb. I. vi. 6. No Iutty frieze, Buttrice, nor Coigne of Vantage, but this Bird Hath made his pendant Bed.
1703. T. N., City & C. Purchaser, 285. Leaving that Ledge, or Jutty … call’d a Water-table.
fig. 1602. Carew, Cornwall, 36 b. To salue himselfe of a desperate debt, prosecuted the same so far forth, as he brought it to the iutty of a Nisi prius.
