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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
jutting
    adj 1: extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the
           jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses";
           "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over
           the end of his truck" [syn: jutting, projected,
           projecting, protruding, relieved, sticking(p),
           sticking out(p)]
    n 1: the act of projecting out from something [syn:
         protrusion, projection, jut, jutting]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Jut \Jut\ (j[u^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jutted; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Jutting.] [A corruption of jet.]
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   1. To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body;
      as, the jutting part of a building. "In jutting rock and
      curved shore." --Wordsworth.
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            It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
                                                  --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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   2. To butt. [Obs.] "The jutting steer." --Mason.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Jutting \Jut"ting\, a.
   Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- Jut"ting*ly, adv.
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Thesaurus Results for jutting:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, bold, eminent, emissile, excrescent, excrescential, extruding, impendence, impendency, impendent, impending, incumbent, lowering, outstanding, overhang, overhanging, overhung, pending, prognathous, projecting, projection, prominent, protrudent, protruding, protrusile, protrusive, protuberant, protuberating, salient, superincumbent
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