jut
n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects
from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an
obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the
rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well
developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn:
bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity,
gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance,
protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]
2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion,
projection, jut, jutting]
v 1: extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted
out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff" [syn:
stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project]
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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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