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Jetty vs Jutty - What's the difference?

jetty | jutty |

As nouns the difference between jetty and jutty

is that jetty is a structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach while jutty is a projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty.

As a verb jetty

is to jut out; to project.

As an adjective jetty

is made of jet, or like jet in color.

jetty

English

(wikipedia jetty)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) ‘pier, jetty, causeway’. Compare jet, jutty.

Noun

(jetties)
  • A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
  • A wharf or dock extending from the shore.
  • (architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
    • Synonyms
    * (protective structure) mole, breakwater * pier
    Coordinate terms
    * (pier) quay, levee
    Hypernyms
    * (pier) wharf, dock

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (obsolete) To jut out; to project.
    • (Florio)

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.75:
    • those large black eyes were so blackly fringed, / The glossy rebels mocked the jetty stain [...].
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
    • She raised her face veil [...] showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing [...].
    Derived terms
    * jettiness

    References

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    jutty

    English

    Noun

    (jutties)
  • A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, title=Tales of Old Japan, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The taking of life being displeasing to Buddha, outside many of the temples old women and children earn a livelihood by selling sparrows, small eels, carp, and tortoises, which the worshipper sets free in honour of the deity, within whose territory cocks and hens and doves, tame and unharmed, perch on every jutty , frieze, buttress, and coigne of vantage. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1828, author=Various, title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 12,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I was (says our friend) at the Naval Hospital, at Yarmouth, on the morning when Nelson, after the battle of Copenhagen (having sent the wounded before him,) arrived at the Roads, and landed on the jutty . }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1608, author=William Shakespeare, title=Macbeth, chapter=, edition=, url=
    • , passage=This guest of summer, the temple-haunting martlet, does approve by his mansionry that the heaven's breath smells wooingly here; no jutty , frieze, buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird hath made his pendent bed and procreant cradle. }} (Webster 1913)