Jetty

Quick meaning: Jetty is a noun meaning A dock or wharf extending into a river from a bank, or into a sea from a shore, for boats to land or moor at; a pier.

Meaning

A dock or wharf extending into a river from a bank, or into a sea from a shore, for boats to land or moor at; a pier.

More Meanings

1. Synonym of bulwark (“a defensive rampart or wall”).
2. Sometimes followed by out: to construct (a part of a building) so that it jets or projects beyond the rest.
3. Sometimes followed by out or over: of (a part of) a building: to jet or project beyond the rest of the building or other structures.
4. To provide a riverbank, seashore, etc., with a jetty (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).
5. (architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest; specifically, an upper storey which overhangs the part of the building below.
6. A structure of stone or wood which extends into a river or sea to protect a bank, beach, harbour, etc., from currents or tides; a breakwater.
7. To provide (a riverbank, seashore, etc.) with a jetty (“breakwater; dock or wharf”) (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).

Example Sentences

There are excellent jetties for landing by boat at the Marine Hotel, and the Vine Inn; […]

The boathouse was a stone one, with a narrow quay along each wall inside, and a small jetty sticking out beyond it into the lake.

The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility.

Spérto, a porch, a portall, a baie vvindovv, or out butting, or iettie of a houſe that ietties out farther than anie other part of the houſe, a iettie or butte.

Word Forms

• jetties
• jettee
• jettying
• jettied
• jettier
• jettiest

Synonyms for jetty

Depending on context, synonyms include jutty, mole, levee, quay, bulwark, tar-black.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include breakwater, groyne, seawall, bulwark, mole, groin.

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