▪ I. † jutty, n. Obs.
Also 5 iutte, 6 iotye, iuttey, iuttie.
[A phonetic variant of jetty n., a. F. jetée the action of throwing or casting, something thrown out, etc. The u for e as in jut v.2]
1. A pier, breakwater, or embankment; = jetty 1.
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans D j, I haue seen them made sum to sle the pie sum to sle the Tele vppon the Reuer: at the Iutte. Ibid. D j b, Iff youre hawke nym the fowle at the fer side of the Ryuer or of the pitt from you Then she sleeth the fowle at the fer Iutty. 1547 Act 1 Edw. VI, c. 14 §8 For the mayntenaunce of Piers, Iutties, walles or banckes against the rages of the sea. 1547 Ld. Grey, etc. Let. to Protector 18 Apr. (S.P., P.R.O., Foreign XIV. No. 121) ‘No fort’, said we, ‘but a Iutty to amende the havon to save both your shippes and ours’. a 1653 G. Daniel Idyll. ii. 21 The Iutty of Discretion..drowned in the Tide. 1804 Trans. Soc. Arts XXII. 248 By a pier-head on the East and jutties on the West side. |
b. jutty-head = jetty-head (jetty n. 4): see quot. 1750.
| 1559 in Boys Sandwich (1792) 739 There must be two juttie heddes towards the sea. 1587 Fleming Contn. Holinshed III. 1547/1 When the two iuttie heads are once finished..so as the hauens mouth be perfected. 1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expos. 84 Jutty heads, Platforms standing on Piles which are made near the Docks, and project without the Wharfs for the more convenient docking and undocking Ships. |
2. A projecting part of a wall or building; = jetty n. 2.
| 1519 W. Horman Vulg. xxix. R vj, Buyldynge chargydde with iotyes is parellous whan it is very olde, Mœniana ædificia vetustate corrupta periculo sunt obnoxia. 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Salidizo, the iuttie of an house, the bearing out of a wall. 1605 Shakes. Macb. i. vi. 6 No Iutty frieze, Buttrice, nor Coigne of Vantage, but this Bird Hath made his pendant Bed. 1703 T. N. City & C. Purchaser 285 Leaving that Ledge, or Jutty..call'd a Water-table. |
| fig. 1602 Carew Cornwall 36 b, To salue himselfe of a desperate debt, prosecuted the same so far forth, as he brought it to the iutty of a Nisi prius. |
▪ II. ˈjutty, a.
[f. jut n.2 + -y.]
Characterized by jutting out.
| 1827 Hood Hero & L. xlii, Hard by some jutty cape. 1868 G. M. Hopkins Jrnl. 19 July (1959) 178 Lying in jutty bends. 1922 A. S. M. Hutchinson This Freedom ii. 23 He swung round and pushed his dark face and jutty nose into the face of Bolas. 1937 G. M. Young Daylight & Champaign 93 Driving away the birds who nest in the jutty frieze. |
▪ III. jutty, v. Obs. or arch.
(ˈdʒʌtɪ)
Forms: 5 iutteye, 7 iuttie, 7– jutty.
[Related to jutty n.: cf. also jetty v.1]
1. intr. To project, jut, esp. as part of a building, or as a pier or breakwater. arch.
| 14.. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 591/6 Jutto, to Iutteye. 1600 J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa i. 34 Where it beginneth to iuttie forth into the sea. 1649 G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. IV, xxvi, Some Common Principles may Iutty out And stand as Peirs, the lesser Barks to shroud. 1855 Singleton Virgil I. 232 On this side and on that, prodigious rocks And twin(-like) cliffs jutty into the heaven. |
† 2. trans. To project, beyond, overhang. Obs.
| 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, iii. i. 13 As fearefully, as doth a galled Rocke O're-hang and iutty his confounded Base. |
† 3. To cause to project or overhang; to build out; = jet v.2 2. Obs.
| 1611 Cotgr., Voyer, a Surueyer..who..limits, vnto those that build in a street, their ground and scope of iuttying. Ibid., Souspendu,..hung ouer: iuttied, or set out beyond. |
Hence ˈjuttying vbl. n., the action of the vb., also, a projection; ˈjuttying ppl. a., projecting.
| 1609 Holland Amm. Marcell. xxvii. ix. 318 He tooke away all those juttying galleries of pleasure called Meniana. 1611 Cotgr., Soupenduë, a penthouse; iuttie..a iuttying, or a leaning out or beyond. |