▪ I. jut, n.1 Obs. or dial.
(dʒʌt)
[Of same origin as jut v.1]
The act of striking or knocking against an obstacle; the shock of collision; a push, thrust, or shove against a resisting body. Also fig.
| a 1553 Udall Royster D. iii. iii. (Arb.) 43, Yond commeth Roister Doister..I will not see him, but giue him a iutte in deede. 1569 Sir J. Hawkins Voy. Guinea in Arb. Garner V. 220, I thought it rather better to abide the jutt of the uncertainty, than the certainty. 1607 Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. ii. vi. 59 The least iutt that is [being able] to put out of ioynt the foote that hanged loose before. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia ii. iii, The fiend, with a jut of his foot may keep off the old from a dread of the future. |
▪ II. jut, n.2
(dʒʌt)
[var. of jet n.3: cf. jut v.2]
1. A jutting out; that which juts or projects; a projection or protruding point. Cf. jet n.3 1.
| 1786 Burns Brigs of Ayr 132 Gaunt, ghastly, ghaist-alluring edifices, Hanging with threat'ning jut, like precipices. 18.. Moir Poems, The Fowler, The land's extremest point, a sandy jut. 1842 Tennyson Morte d'Arthur 50 Stepping down By zig-zag paths, and juts of pointed rock. 1893 M. Gray Last Sent. ii. vii. II. 98 The jut of the porch sheltered this window. |
† 2. A jerking movement or swagger of the body; = jet n.3 3. Obs. rare.
| 1709 Congreve tr. Ovid's Art Love iii. Wks. 1773 III. 272 One has an artful swing and jut behind. |
3. Comb., as jut-jawed a., having a jutting jaw.
| 1943 Commonweal (N.Y.) 11 June 195 The company sergeant-major, a tough, jut-jawed, red-faced, bull-necked veteran of the last war. 1952 T. Pyles Words & Ways Amer. Eng. v. 94 The dour, thin-lipped, jut-jawed righteousness of his [sc. N. Webster's] later portraits. 1959 Daily Mail 21 Mar. 6/4 That jut-jawed Marshal of the R.A.F. |
▪ III. jut, n.3
variant of jet n.4 = gist n.3
▪ IV. jut, v.1 Obs. or dial.
(dʒʌt)
Also 6–7 iutt(e.
[app. onomatopœic; expressing both in sound and feeling the obstructed action in question.]
† 1. intr. To strike, knock, or push against something. Obs.
| 1548 Udall Erasm. Par. Luke xi. 110 It shal no where stumble nor iutte against any thyng. 1565–73 Cooper Thesaurus s.v. Incurro, To runne & iutte or hitte against a thing in the darke. 1628 Earle Microcosm., Plausible man (Arb.) 59 One that would faine run an euen path..and iutt against no man. |
2. trans. To push, thrust, shove, jolt; to knock against something. Obs. exc. dial.
| 1565 Jewel Def. Apol. ii. xiv. (1611) 267 These two propositions..may well stand together without iutting the one the other out of place. 1607 Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. ii. vi. 59 C. Aufidius [dyed] by iutting his foot, when he was entring into Senat. 1863 Barnes Dorset Gloss., Jut, to give one a sudden blow or concussion when still, particularly when writing. 1886 S.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., The waggons did jut us. |
▪ V. jut, v.2
(dʒʌt)
[Phonetic var. of jet v.2]
intr. To project or protrude (prop. as a prominence beyond the main line). Often with out or forth.
| 1565–73 Cooper Thesaurus, Meniana,..Buildings of pleasure hanging and iutting out. 1578 Banister Hist. Man i. 24 This Processe iuttyng forth like a knot in a peece of wood. 1698 Tyson in Phil. Trans. XX. 112 In a Snake's Skin part of one Scale juts over another. 1741 Richardson Pamela I. 223 A little summer-parlour that juts out towards the garden. 1819 W. Erskine in Welsh Life Dr. T. Brown iv. (1825) 152 The island of Salsette juts out into the noble bay of Bombay. 1847 J. Wilson Chr. North (1857) I. 250 The points and promontories jutting into the lake. 1886 Sheldon tr. Flaubert's Salammbô 22 Palm trees here and there jutting beyond the walls did not stir. |
† b. transf. To encroach upon. Obs.
| 1623 [see jet v.2 1 b, quot. 1594]. |
▪ VI. jut, v.3
jutting,
= jet v.1, jetting ppl. a.1
| 1761 Churchill Rosciad i. 161 Then, with a self-complacent jutting air, It smil'd, It smirk'd, It wriggl'd to the chair. 1823 M. W. Shelley Valperga I. 286 Thus they jutted up and down before their master, fancying that he would admire them. |