Jetty
['dʒetɪ] or ['dʒɛti]
Definition
(a.) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
(n.) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
(n.) A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
(n.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
(v. i.) To jut out; to project.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mole.
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Definition
n. a projection: a kind of pier.
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Examples
- I knew my traveller with his broad and jetty eyebrows; his square forehead, made squarer by the horizontal sweep of his black hair. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She wore an amber-coloured flower, too, in her hair: it contrasted well with the jetty mass of her curls. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- These jetties so concentrated the flow of waters into a narrow channel as to cause its increased velocity to wash out the mud and silt and deepen the channel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The mattresses were laid 35 to 50 feet wide at the bottom, which width was considerably increased by the superimposed layer of stone, and the jetties extended 2? miles into the sea. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Its construction involved the building across the bar and out into the Gulf of Mexico two long reaches of parallel embankments, called jetties. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
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