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Jutty
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Definition 2025
jutty
jutty
English
Noun
jutty (plural jutties)
- A projection in a building; also, a pier or mole; a jetty
- 1910, Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, Tales of Old Japan:
- 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.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, Macbeth:
- 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.
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Verb
jutty (third-person singular simple present jutties, present participle juttying, simple past and past participle juttied)
- To project outwards.