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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Jut  \Jut\  (j[u^]t),  v.  i.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Jutted};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Jutting}.]  [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. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Jut  \Jut\,  n. 
  1.  That  which  projects  or  juts;  a  projection. 
 
  2.  A  shove;  a  push  [Obs.]  --Udall. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  jut 
  n  1:  something  that  protrudes  [syn:  {bulge},  {bump},  {hump},  {gibbosity}, 
  {gibbousness},  {prominence},  {protuberance},  {protrusion}, 
  {extrusion},  {excrescence}] 
  2:  the  act  of  projecting  out  from  something  [syn:  {protrusion}, 
  {projection},  {jutting}]




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