English

Noun

jetty ‎(plural jetties)

Jetty with boat and bicycle

1. A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
2. A wharf or dock extending from the shore.
3. (architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.

Synonyms

• (protective structure): mole, breakwater
• (wharf, dock): pier

Coordinate terms

• (pier): quay, levee

Hypernyms

• (pier): wharf, dock

Translations

Verb

jetty ‎(third-person singular simple present jetties, present participle jettying, simple past and past participle jettied)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To jut out; to project.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Florio to this entry?)

Etymology 2

jet +‎ -y

Adjective

jetty ‎(comparative jettier, superlative jettiest)

1. (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

• jetty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913