jettying

Verb (1)

jetty (third-person singular simple present jetties, present participle jettying, simple past and past participle jettied)

1. (transitive) Sometimes followed by out: to construct (a part of a building) so that it jets or projects beyond the rest.
   • Adentellare, […] It is properly to ietty out, or indent ſtones or timber of any vnfinished building, that another may the eaſier be ioyned vnto, or that finiſhed.1598, John Florio, “Adentellare”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC, page 7, column 2
2. (broadly, transitive) 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).
   • The land is indeed materially injured in many parts, for want of drains; but I think the expence would exceed the profit: they would soon lodge up, and consequently want jettying on the sides.1805, Richard Parkinson, “Section XXVI. Observations on the Soil and Climate. Reasons why Canals, and Improvements in Draining, Will Not Succeed in America. […]”, in A Tour in America, in 1798, 1799...
3. (intransitive) 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.
   • 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.1598, John Florio, “Spérto”, in A Worlde of Words, or Most Copious, and Exact Dictionarie in Italian and English, […], London: […] Arnold Hatfield for Edw[ard] Blount, →OCLC, page 392, column 1

   Synonyms:

   jutty

4. (broadly, intransitive) To provide a riverbank, seashore, etc., with a jetty (noun etymology 1, noun sense 2.1 or etymology 1, noun sense 2.2).

Verb (2)

jetty (third-person singular simple present jetties, present participle jettying, simple past and past participle jettied)

1. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To move with haste.
   • Some knack not vnpretye, / of Huſwiferie nettie, / how Huſwiues ſhould iettie / from morning to night.1570, Thomas Tusser, “To the Right Honourable and My Speciall Good Lady and Mistres, the Lady Paget”, in A Hundrethe Good Pointes of Husbandrie, Lately Maried vnto a Hundrethe Good Points of Huswifry...

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