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JUT
protrusion, projection, jut, jutting
(noun) the act of projecting out from something
bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
(noun) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
jut (third-person singular simple present juts, present participle jutting, simple past and past participle jutted)
(intransitive) To stick out.
(obsolete) To butt.
Noun
jut (plural juts)
Something that sticks out.
Synonyms: outcrop, protrusion
Anagrams
• UJT
Proper noun
Jut
Dated form of Jat.
Anagrams
• UJT
Source: Wiktionary
Jut, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jutting.] Etym: [A corruption of jet.]
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. It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. Sir T. Browne.
2. To butt. [Obs.] "The jutting steer." Mason.
Jut, n.
1. That which projects or juts; a projection.
2. A shove; a push. [Obs.] Udall.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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