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

  • It has container handling jetty.
  • Fishing takes place on the jetty.
  • It contains a light beacon and jetty.
  • A jetty was built to transfer the ore.
  • The coaling jetty in the river remains.
  • It contains a homestead, jetty and airstrip.
  • It was used there as a store hulk and jetty.
  • The water depth at the tail of the jetty is .
  • The Japanese completed the construction of the jetty.
  • From Gateway Of India to Mandwa jetty is about an hour by boat.
  • The Transperth jetty is located at the pier 4 of the Barrack Square.
  • [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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