jut Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
    protrusion; extrusion; bulge; gibbousness; hump; prominence; bump; swelling; excrescence; gibbosity; protuberance.
    • the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge
    • the hump of a camel
    • he stood on the rocky prominence
    • the occipital protuberance was well developed
    • the bony excrescence between its horns
  2. noun the act of projecting out from something
    protrusion; jutting; projection.
  3. verb extend out or project in space
    project; protrude; jut out; stick out.
    • His sharp nose jutted out
    • A single rock sticks out from the cliff

WordNet

Jut intransitive verb
Etymology
A corruption of jet.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Jutted ; present participle & verbal noun Jutting
Definitions
  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.
    It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem. Sir T. Browne.
  2. To butt. Obs. "The jutting steer." Mason.
Jut noun
Definitions
  1. That which projects or juts; a projection.
  2. A shove; a push. Obs. Udall.

Webster 1913