JUTTING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jutting mean? 

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

1. the act of projecting out from something

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

• JUTTING (adjective)
  The adjective JUTTING has 1 sense:

1. extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

  Familiarity information: JUTTING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUTTING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of projecting out from something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

jut; jutting; projection; protrusion

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

change of shape (an action that changes the shape of something)

Derivation:

jut (extend out or project in space)

• JUTTING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary

Synonyms:

jutting; projected; projecting; protruding; relieved; sticking; sticking out

Context example:

a pile of boards sticking over the end of his truck

Similar:

protrusive (thrusting outward)

 Context examples 

I remember the high, oak-panelled walls, with the heads of deer jutting out, and a single white bust, which sent my heart into my mouth, in the corner.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Above the woods which lined it upon the farther side we could see the red, jutting pinnacles which marked the site of the rich landowner’s dwelling.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the same instant the man stumbled forward upon his knees, and lay lifeless upon the deck, a blood-stained feather jutting out from his back.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again I turned my face to leeward, and again I saw the jutting promontory, black and high and naked, the raging surf that broke about its base and beat its front high up with spouting fountains, the black and forbidden coast-line running toward the south-east and fringed with a tremendous scarf of white.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The schooner paused not, but rushing across the harbour, pitched herself on that accumulation of sand and gravel washed by many tides and many storms into the south-east corner of the pier jutting under the East Cliff, known locally as Tate Hill Pier.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken and strewed on the ground, some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the jutting rocks of the mountain or transversely upon other trees.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

On the 17th, we came in full view of a great island, or continent (for we knew not whether;) on the south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Like a dado round the room was the jutting line of splendid heavy game-heads, the best of their sort from every quarter of the world, with the rare white rhinoceros of the Lado Enclave drooping its supercilious lip above them all.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His face was pale and handsome, with a prominent chin, a jutting nose, and large blue staring eyes, in which a sort of dancing, mischievous light was for ever playing.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The archer was standing with folded arms, his bow jutting from over his shoulder, and the sun gleaming brightly upon his head-piece and the links of his chain-mail.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)