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Found 5 hits - Term: jetty, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jetty \jet"ty\, a.
   made of jet, or like jet in color.
   1913 webster

         the people . . . are of a jetty.         --sir t.
                                                  browne.
   1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jetty \jet"ty\, n.; pl. jetties. f. jet'ee a pier, a jetty,
   a causeway. see jet a shooting forth, and cf. jutty.
   1913 webster
   1. arch. a part of a building that jets or projects beyond
      the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
      1913 webster

   2. a wharf or pier extending from the shore.
      1913 webster

   3. hydraul. engin. 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.
      1913 webster

   jetty head naut., a projecting part at the end of a
      wharf; the front of a wharf whose side forms one of the
      cheeks of a dock.
      1913 webster
see also:
jetties jet jutty jetty head 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
jetty \jet"ty\, v. i.
   to jut out; to project. obs. --florio.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
jetty
     n : a protective structure of stone or concrete; extends from
         shore into the water to prevent a beach from washing away
         syn: breakwater, groin, groyne, mole, bulwark,
          seawall
see also:
breakwater groin groyne mole bulwark seawall 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
97 moby thesaurus words for "jetty":
   abutment, anchorage, anchorage ground, arc-boutant, arch dam,
   backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, basin, beam,
   bear-trap dam, beaver dam, berth, black, boom, breakwater,
   breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, buttress,
   buttress pier, buttressing, cofferdam, dam, defense, dike, ditch,
   dock, dockage, dockyard, dry dock, earthwork, ebon, ebony,
   embankment, fence, flying buttress, gate, gravity dam, groin,
   hanging buttress, harbor, harborage, haven, hydraulic-fill dam,
   inky, iron curtain, jam, jet, jutty, landing, landing place,
   landing stage, leaping weir, levee, logjam, marina, milldam, moat,
   mole, moorings, mound, parapet, pier, pier buttress, pitch-black,
   pitch-dark, port, portcullis, protected anchorage, quay, rampart,
   raven, retaining wall, road, roadblock, roads, roadstead,
   rock-fill dam, sable, seaport, seawall, shipyard, shoulder,
   shutter dam, slip, stone wall, wall, weir, wharf, wicket dam,
   work





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