Jutting

jutting
    adj 1: extending out above or beyond a surface or boundary; "the
           jutting limb of a tree"; "massive projected buttresses";
           "his protruding ribs"; "a pile of boards sticking over
           the end of his truck" [syn: {jutting}, {projected},
           {projecting}, {protruding}, {relieved}, {sticking(p)},
           {sticking out(p)}]
    n 1: the act of projecting out from something [syn:
         {protrusion}, {projection}, {jut}, {jutting}]
    

Jutting \Jut"ting\, a.
   Projecting, as corbels, cornices, etc. -- {Jut"ting*ly}, adv.
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Jut \Jut\ (j[u^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Jutted}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Jutting}.] [A corruption of jet.]
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   1. To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body;
      as, the jutting part of a building. "In jutting rock and
      curved shore." --Wordsworth.
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            It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
                                                  --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.
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   2. To butt. [Obs.] "The jutting steer." --Mason.
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32 Moby Thesaurus words for "jutting":
      beetle, beetle-browed, beetling, bold, eminent, emissile,
      excrescent, excrescential, extruding, impendence, impendency,
      impendent, impending, incumbent, lowering, outstanding, overhang,
      overhanging, overhung, pending, prognathous, projecting,
      projection, prominent, protrudent, protruding, protrusile,
      protrusive, protuberant, protuberating, salient, superincumbent