'Jutting' definitions:
Definition of 'jutting'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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)]
noun
Definition of 'Jutting'
From: GCIDE
- Jut \Jut\ (j[u^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Jutting.] [A corruption of jet.] [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To butt. [Obs.] "The jutting steer." --Mason. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Jutting'
From: GCIDE
- Jutting \Jut"ting\, a. Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- {Jut"ting*ly}, adv. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'jutting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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