JETTY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jetty mean? 

• JETTY (noun)
  The noun JETTY has 1 sense:

1. a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away

  Familiarity information: JETTY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JETTY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

breakwater; bulwark; groin; groyne; jetty; mole; seawall

Hypernyms ("jetty" is a kind of...):

barrier (a structure or object that impedes free movement)

 Context examples 

She wore an amber-coloured flower, too, in her hair: it contrasted well with the jetty mass of her curls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

However, I said No, and I added, You don't seem to be either, though you say you are,—for she was walking much too near the brink of a sort of old jetty or wooden causeway we had strolled upon, and I was afraid of her falling over.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I knew my traveller with his broad and jetty eyebrows; his square forehead, made squarer by the horizontal sweep of his black hair.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Strongly-marked horizontal eyebrows must be traced under that brow; then followed, naturally, a well-defined nose, with a straight ridge and full nostrils; then a flexible-looking mouth, by no means narrow; then a firm chin, with a decided cleft down the middle of it: of course, some black whiskers were wanted, and some jetty hair, tufted on the temples, and waved above the forehead.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

What charade Colonel Dent and his party played, what word they chose, how they acquitted themselves, I no longer remember; but I still see the consultation which followed each scene: I see Mr. Rochester turn to Miss Ingram, and Miss Ingram to him; I see her incline her head towards him, till the jetty curls almost touch his shoulder and wave against his cheek; I hear their mutual whisperings; I recall their interchanged glances; and something even of the feeling roused by the spectacle returns in memory at this moment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My master's colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth,—all energy, decision, will,—were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me,—that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)