jut

name

1. Dated form of Jat.

noun

Etymology: From Middle English jutten (“to project, jut out”), an alteration of jetten (“to strut, be showy”). More at English jet.

1. Something that sticks out.

   “1999, Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 3 (2001 Perennial Edition). The town of Wall stands today as it has stood for six hundred years, on a high jut of granite amidst a small forest woodland.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English jutten (“to project, jut out”), an alteration of jetten (“to strut, be showy”). More at English jet.

1. To stick out.

   “the jutting part of a building”

   “1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.”

2. To butt.

   “1772-1782, William Mason, The English Garden the jutting steer”