jettier

Adjective (1)

jetty (comparative more jetty, superlative most jetty)

1. (obsolete, rare) Having the characteristic of jetting or jutting out; protruding.
   • Tvviſe tvventie Iettie ſailes vvith him, the ſvvelling ſtreame did take.[1611?], Homer, “The Second Booke of Homers Iliads”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC, page 30

Adjective (2)

jetty (comparative jettier, superlative jettiest)

1. (archaic) Like jet (“a hard, black form of coal”) in colour; jet-black, pitch-black.
   • Blacke are his colloures, blacke Pauillion, / His ſpeare, his ſhield, his horſe, his armour, plumes, / And Ietty Feathers menace death and hell, / VVithout reſpect of ſex, degree or age.c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   coal black, tar-black

2. (obsolete, rare) Having a composition like that of jet.
   • In the Whitby Museum there is a large mass of bone, which has the exterior converted into jet for about a quarter of an inch in thickness. The jetty matter appears to have entered first into the pores of the bone, and there to have hardened; and, during the mineralising process, the whole bony...1856 May 1, Robert Hunt, quoting Mr. Simpson, curator of the Whitby Museum, “No. VIII.—The Whitby Jet and Ammonite Ornaments.”, in The Art-Journal, volume II (New Series), London; New York, N.Y.: […]...

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