jetty

Meanings

1. A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest; specifically, an upper storey which overhangs the part of the building below.
2. A structure of stone or wood which extends into a river or sea to protect a bank, beach, harbour, etc., from currents or tides; a breakwater.
3. A dock or wharf extending into a river from a bank, or into a sea from a shore, for boats to land or moor at; a pier.
4. A natural piece of land projecting into a body of water; a peninsula, a promontory.
5. In full air jetty: synonym of jet bridge (“an elevated, usually enclosed, corridor connecting an airport to an aeroplane for embarking and disembarking crew and passengers”).
6. Synonym of bulwark (“a defensive rampart or wall”).

1. Sometimes followed by out: to construct (a part of a building) so that it jets or projects beyond the rest.
2. To provide (a riverbank, seashore, etc.) with a jetty (“breakwater; dock or wharf”) (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).
3. Sometimes followed by out or over: of (a part of) a building: to jet or project beyond the rest of the building or other structures.
4. To provide a riverbank, seashore, etc., with a jetty (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).

1. Having the characteristic of jetting or jutting out; protruding.

1. Like jet (“a hard, black form of coal”) in colour; jet-black, pitch-black.
2. Having a composition like that of jet.

1. To move with haste.

Etymology

The noun is derived from Late Middle English gete, jette, jetti (“projecting upper storey of a building, overhang; breakwater, pier, jetty”), from Anglo-Norman geté, getee, getté, and Middle French geté, getee, jeté (“projecting upper storey of a building; breakwater, pier”) (modern French jetée), a noun use of the past participle of geter, jeter, from Old French geter, jeter (“to throw”) from Late Latin iectāre, the present active infinitive of iectō (“to throw”), probably from Latin iactō (“to cast, hurl, throw”), from iaciō (“to cast, hurl, throw”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- (“to throw”)) + -tō (frequentative suffix). Compare jet (“(obsolete) protruding part”), jutty. The verb is derived from the noun.

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