Jetty
Jetty , adjective
Made of jet, or like jet in color.
The people... are of a jetty.
Jetty (#) , noun
[French jetée a pier, a jetty, a causeway. See Jet a shooting forth, and compare Jutty.]
1.
(Architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
2.
A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
3.
(Hydraul. Engineering) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.
Collocations (1)
Jetty head (Nautical) , a projecting part at the end of a wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dock.
Jetty , intransitive verb
To jut out; to project. [Obsolete] — Florio