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To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.

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  1. v. i. To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.
  2. v. i. To butt.
  3. n. That which projects or juts; a projection.
  4. n. A shove; a push.
  5. n. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
  6. n. the act of projecting out from something
  7. v. extend out or project in space
  8. 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. 1. That which projects or juts; a projection. 2. A shove; a push. [Obs.] Udall.
  9. n:7/v:93 n something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings n the act of projecting out from something v extend out or project in space