'Jetty' definitions:
Definition of 'jetty'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Jetty'
From: GCIDE
- Jetty \Jet"ty\, v. i. To jut out; to project. [Obs.] --Florio. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Jetty'
From: GCIDE
- Jetty \Jet"ty\, a. Made of jet, or like jet in color. [1913 Webster]
- The people . . . are of a jetty. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Jetty'
From: GCIDE
- Jetty \Jet"ty\, n.; pl. Jetties. [F. jet['e]e a pier, a jetty, a causeway. See Jet a shooting forth, and cf. Jutty.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. (Arch.) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A wharf or pier extending from the shore. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Hydraul. Engin.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River. [1913 Webster]
- Jetty head (Naut.), a projecting part at the end of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'jetty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abutment,
- anchorage,
- anchorage ground,
- arc-boutant,
- arch dam,
- backstop,
- bamboo curtain,
- bank,
- bar,
- barrage,
- barrier,
- basin,
- beam,
- bear-trap dam,
- beaver dam,
- berth,
- black,
- boom,
- breakwater,
- breastwork,
- brick wall,
- buffer,
- bulkhead,
- bulwark,
- buttress,
- buttress pier,
- buttressing,
- cofferdam,
- dam,
- defense,
- dike,
- ditch,
- dock,
- dockage,
- dockyard,
- dry dock,
- earthwork,
- ebon,
- ebony,
- embankment,
- fence,
- flying buttress,
- gate,
- gravity dam,
- groin,
- hanging buttress,
- harbor,
- harborage,
- haven,
- hydraulic-fill dam,
- inky,
- iron curtain,
- jam,
- jet,
- jutty,
- landing,
- landing place,
- landing stage,
- leaping weir,
- levee,
- logjam,
- marina,
- milldam,
- moat,
- mole,
- moorings,
- mound,
- parapet,
- pier,
- pier buttress,
- pitch-black,
- pitch-dark,
- port,
- portcullis,
- protected anchorage,
- quay,
- rampart,
- raven,
- retaining wall,
- road,
- roadblock,
- roads,
- roadstead,
- rock-fill dam,
- sable,
- seaport,
- seawall,
- shipyard,
- shoulder,
- shutter dam,
- slip,
- stone wall,
- wall,
- weir,
- wharf,
- wicket dam,
- work