jetty

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

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(RQ:Florio Worlde of Wordes)
(RQ:Freart Evelyn Antient Architecture)
(senseid) 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.
(RQ:De Mornay Sidney Golding Trewnesse)
(quote-journal).|journal=Transactions of the Royal Society|Philosophical Transactions. Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World|location=London|publisher=(...) Samuel Smith and Benjamin Walford, printers to the (w),(nb...)|year_published=1704|volume=XXIII|issue=279|page=1158|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/jstor-102865/page/n1/mode/1up|jstor=102865|oclc=630046584|passage=Near the River ''VVelland'', that runs thro the Tovvn of ''Spalding'' in ''Lincolnſhire'', at the depth of above 8 or 10 foot, there vvere found ''Jettys'', as they call them, to keep up the old Rivers Bank, and the head of a Tunnel that emptied the Land-vvater into the old River; (..)
(RQ:Burke State of the Nation)
(senseid) 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.

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(quote-book)|page=49|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSRbAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA49|oclc=503843014|passage=There are excellent jetties for landing by boat at the Marine Hotel, and the Vine Inn; (..)
(RQ:Ransome Swallows and Amazons)
A natural piece of land projecting into a of water; a peninsula, a promontory.
''In full'' air jetty: (synonym of).
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''Sometimes followed by'' out: to construct (a part of a building) so that it jets or projects beyond the rest.
(RQ:Florio Worlde of Wordes) 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 (l) ''(noun (senseno) or (senseno))''.
(quote-book)|title=A Tour in America, in 1798, 1799, and 1800.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) J. Harding,(nb...); and Murray (publishing house)|John Murray,(nb...)|volume=II|page=482|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/atourinamericain02parkrich/page/482/mode/1up|oclc=1723360|passage=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.
(quote-journal)|volume=LX|issue=7|page=105|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/scientific-american-1889-02-16/page/n10/mode/1up|columns=1–2|oclc=933312574|passage=The harbor of Greytown was formely open to vessels of considerable draught, but has almost been closed by sand bars; the surveys show, however, that the expense will be but moderate, by jettying with brush and pile, and finally strengthening of stone, of making an entrance for vessels of 30 feelt draught to an amply protected and safe harbor, (..)
''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.
(RQ:Suetonius Holland Caesars), the preparation and furniture of the Cirque, ſome fevv from the next open galleries jettying out, called unto him for the ſame.
(RQ:Sandys Journey) are incloſed vvith goodly buildings, hauing galleries of pleaſure vvhich ietty over, ſuſtained vpon pillars.
To provide a riverbank, seashore, etc., with a jetty ''(noun (senseno) or (senseno))''.
Having the characteristic of jetting or out|jutting out; protruding.
(RQ:Homer Chapman Iliads)
(RQ:Baillie Family Legend)
Like (l) in colour; jet-black, pitch-black.
(RQ:Marlowe Tamburlaine)
(RQ:Drayton Poly-Olbion)
(RQ:Swift Miscellanies)
(RQ:Scott Lady of the Lake)
(RQ:Byron Don Juan)
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)
(RQ:R. F. Burton Arabian Nights)
(RQ:Dos Passos Manhattan Transfer)
Having a composition like that of jet.
(quote-journal)|title=No. VIII.—The Whitby Jet and Ammonite Ornaments.|journal=Art Journal|The Art-Journal|location=London; New York, N.Y.|publisher=(...) Virtue|George Virtue,(nb...)|volume=II (New Series)|page=155|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/gri_33125006187328/page/155/mode/1up|column=1|oclc=1514293|passage=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; and, during the mineralising process, the whole bony matter has been gradually displaced, and its place occupied by jet, so as to preserve its original form.|footer=(small)
To move with haste.
(RQ:Tusser Good Husbandrie)