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noun
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a wharf or landing pier.
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the piles or wooden structure protecting a pier.
4.
Also, jutty. an overhang, as of an upper story beyond a lower.
verb (used with object)
5.
to construct (part of a building) so that it projects beyond lower construction; jutty.
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Origin:
1375–1425; late Middle English get(t)ey < Old French jetee, literally, something thrown out, a projection, noun use of jetee, feminine past participle of jeter to throw; see jet1
1375–1425; late Middle English get(t)ey < Old French jetee, literally, something thrown out, a projection, noun use of jetee, feminine past participle of jeter to throw; see jet1
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jetty
1418, from O.Fr. jetee "a jetty, a projecting part of a building," from fem. pp. of jeter "to throw" (see jet (v.)). Notion is of a structure "thrown out" past what surrounds it.
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