Meaning

(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..

Definitions by Sense

1. (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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Synonym of bulwark (“a defensive rampart or wall”).
5. Sometimes followed by out: to construct (a part of a building) so that it jets or projects beyond the rest.
6. 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).
7. 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.
8. To provide a riverbank, seashore, etc., with a jetty (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).

Example Sentences

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.

Moſt prepoſtrous therefore and improper is our frequent aſſigning ſuch vveak ſupporters to ſuch monſtrous jetties and exceſſive Superſtructures as vve many times find under Balconies, Bay-VVindovvs and long Galleries, […]

[I]t appeareth that all the auncient Townes and Citties which ſtand vppon the Riuers of Rhyne and Danowe, towardes Fraunce and Italy, did ſerue rather for a Banke or Iettie againſt the ouerflowing of the Germanes, than for Fortreſſes to aſſayle them withall.

Near the River VVelland, that runs thro the Tovvn of Spalding in Lincolnſhire, at the depth of above 8 or 10 foot, there vvere found Jettys, as they call them, to keep up the old Rivers Bank, and the head of a Tunnel that emptied the Land-vvater into the old River; […]

[I]nſtead of demolition, they found conſtruction; for the French vvere then at vvork on the repair of the jettees. On the remonſtrances of General [Henry Seymour] Convvay, ſome parts of theſe jettees were immediately deſtroyed.

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.

Word Forms

• jetties
• jettee
• jettying
• jettied
• more jetty
• most jetty
• jettier
• jettiest

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Use jetty when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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