outjet

English

Etymology

out- +‎ jet

Noun

outjet (plural outjets)

1. (archaic) That which jets out or projects; a protrusion.
   • 1854, Hugh Miller, My Schools and Schoolmasters:

     I shook them in a manner that must have exerted no small leverage power on the outjet beneath

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outjet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)