Obs. or arch. Forms: 5 iutteye, 7 iuttie, 7 jutty. [Related to JUTTY sb.: cf. also JETTY v.1]
1. intr. To project, jut, esp. as part of a building, or as a pier or breakwater. arch.
14[?]. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 591/6. Jutto, to Iutteye.
1600. J. Pory, trans. Leos Africa, I. 34. Where it beginneth to iuttie forth into the sea.
1649. C. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. IV., xxvi. Some Common Principles may Iutty out And stand as Peirs, the lesser Barks to shroud.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 232. On this side and on that, prodigious rocks And twin(-like) cliffs jutty into the heaven.
† 2. trans. To project beyond, overhang. Obs.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., III. i. 13. As fearefully, as doth a galled Rocke Ore-hang and iutty his confounded Base.
† 3. To cause to project or overhang; to build out; = JET v.2 2. Obs.
1611. Cotgr., Voyer, a Surueyer who limits, vnto those that build in a street, their ground and scope of iuttying. Ibid., Souspendu, hung ouer: iuttied, or set out beyond.
Hence Juttying vbl. sb., the action of the vb., also, a projection; Juttying ppl. a., projecting.
1609. Holland, Amm. Marcell., XXVII. ix. 318. He tooke away all those juttying galleries of pleasure called Meniana.
1611. Cotgr., Soupenduë, a penthouse; iuttie a iuttying, or a leaning out or beyond.