jetty

A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest; specifically, an upper storey which overhangs the part of the building below.

• Spérto, a porch, a portall, a baie vvindovv, or out butting, or iettie of a houſe that ietties out farther than anie other part of the houſe, a iettie or butte.
• Moſt prepoſtrous therefore and improper is our frequent aſſigning ſuch vveak ſupporters to ſuch monſtrous jetties and exceſſive Superſtructures as vve many times find under Balconies, Bay-VVindovvs and long Galleries, […]

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.broadly

• [I]nſtead of demolition, they found conſtruction; for the French vvere then at vvork on the repair of the jettees. On the remonſtrances of General [Henry Seymour] Convvay, ſome parts of theſe jettees were immediately deſtroyed.

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.broadly

• There are excellent jetties for landing by boat at the Marine Hotel, and the Vine Inn; […]
• The boathouse was a stone one, with a narrow quay along each wall inside, and a small jetty sticking out beyond it into the lake.

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.; A natural piece of land projecting into a body of water; a peninsula, a promontory.broadly

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.; 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”).broadly

Synonym of bulwark (“a defensive rampart or wall”).broadlyobsolete

Sometimes followed by out: to construct (a part of a building) so that it jets or projects beyond the rest.transitive

• Adentellare, […] It is properly to ietty out, or indent ſtones or timber of any vnfinished building, that another may the eaſier be ioyned vnto, or that finiſhed.

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).broadlytransitive

• The land is indeed materially injured in many parts, for want of drains; but I think the expence would exceed the profit: they would soon lodge up, and consequently want jettying on the sides.

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.intransitive

• Spérto, a porch, a portall, a baie vvindovv, or out butting, or iettie of a houſe that ietties out farther than anie other part of the houſe, a iettie or butte.
• [A]s he beheld from out of the houſe Gelotiana, the preparation and furniture of the Cirque, ſome fevv from the next open galleries jettying out, called unto him for the ſame.

To provide a riverbank, seashore, etc., with a jetty (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).broadlyintransitive

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

• Tvviſe tvventie Iettie ſailes vvith him, the ſvvelling ſtreame did take.
• As near yon rock we bore, that o'er the waves / Just shews its jetty point, and will, ere long, / Beneath the tide be hid, we heard the sound / Of feeble lamentation.

Like jet (“a hard, black form of coal”) in colour; jet-black, pitch-black.archaic

• Blacke are his colloures, blacke Pauillion, / His ſpeare, his ſhield, his horſe, his armour, plumes, / And Ietty Feathers menace death and hell, / VVithout reſpect of ſex, degree or age.
• [A]s amongſt the Moores, the Iettieſt blacke are deem'd / The beautifulſt of them; […]

Having a composition like that of jet.obsoleterare

• In the Whitby Museum there is a large mass of bone, which has the exterior converted into jet for about a quarter of an inch in thickness. The jetty matter appears to have entered first into the pores of the bone, and there to have hardened

To move with haste.intransitiveobsoleterare

• Some knack not vnpretye, / of Huſwiferie nettie, / how Huſwiues ſhould iettie / from morning to night.