jetty
IPA: dʒˈɛti
noun
- A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
- A dock or wharf extending from the shore; a pier.
- (architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
verb
- (obsolete, intransitive) To jut out; to project.
adjective
- (archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
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Examples of "jetty" in Sentences
- From Gateway Of India to Mandwa jetty is about an hour by boat.
- [17 Venice.] of the gondoliers of former days, gliding about in jetty blackness.
- The jetty was the way it had always been—flat and solid and surrounded on three sides by water.
- Moored at the jetty was another smaller boat, a worn but still serviceable launch, its peeling grey paint lending it a military air.
- Her beautiful hands held a cup to the lips of the stranger; while her long hair, escaped from its bands, fell in jetty ringlets, and mingled with his silver locks.
- Coolidge reminded us that the physical jetty is only part of the work, which is actually a triad of the "sculpture" in the landscape, an essay by Smithson, and a film documenting the project.
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