Definition: jut

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

jut
     n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from
          a form [syn: bulge, bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness,
           prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion,
           excrescence]
     2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion,
         projection, jutting]
     v : extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted out";
         "A single rock stick out from the cliff" [syn: stick out,
          protrude, jut out, project]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Jut \Jut\ (j[u^]t), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jutted; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Jutting.] [A corruption of jet.]
   1. To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body;
      as, the jutting part of a building. ``In jutting rock and
      curved shore.'' --Wordsworth.

            It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
                                                  --Sir T.
                                                  Browne.

   2. To butt. [Obs.] ``The jutting steer.'' --Mason.
Jut \Jut\, n.
   1. That which projects or juts; a projection.

   2. A shove; a push. [Obs.] --Udall.