jetty

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʒɛti/

  Rhymes: -ɛti

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French jetée ‘pier, jetty, causeway’. Compare jet, jutty.

Noun

jetty (plural jetties)

Jetty with boat and bicycle

1. A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
2. A wharf or dock extending from the shore.
3. (architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.

Synonyms

• (protective structure): mole, breakwater
• (wharf, dock): pier

Hypernyms

• (pier): wharf, dock

Coordinate terms

• (pier): quay, levee

Translations

structure to influence currents or protect a harbor or beach

• Bulgarian: вълнолом (bg) m (vǎlnolom)
• Dutch: pier (nl) m
• Finnish: aallonmurtaja (fi)
• Georgian: მიწაყრილი (mic̣aq̇rili), კაშხალი (ḳašxali), ჯებირი (ǯebiri)
• German: Damm (de) m, Mole (de) f, Wellenbrecher m
• Greek: λιμενοβραχίονας (el) m (limenovrachíonas)
• Italian: molo (it) m, frangiflutti (it) m, pontile (it) m, diga foranea
• Ligurian: meu m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norman: caûchie f
• Portuguese: quebra-mar m
• Russian: волноре́з (ru) m (volnoréz), мол (ru) m (mol)
• Scottish Gaelic: laimrig f
• Spanish: malecón (es) m, dique (es) m, rompeolas m
• Swedish: vågbrytare (sv), pir (sv)

wharf — see wharf

pier — see pier

architecture

• Bulgarian: еркер (erker), лоджия f (lodžija)
• Finnish: uloke (fi)
• Italian: cornicione (it) m, pensilina (it) f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: э́ркер (ru) m (érker)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} jetée (fr) f
• Hungarian: ^{(please verify)} móló (hu)
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} molo (it) m, ^{(please verify)} pontile (it) m, ^{(please verify)} imbarcadero (it) m
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} 突堤 (tottéi)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 방파제 (ko) (bangpaje)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 防波堤 (zh) (fáng bō dī), ^{(please verify)} 突碼頭／突码头, ^{(please verify)} 突码头 (tū mǎtou)
• Norman: ^{(please verify)} caûchie f (Jersey)

Verb

jetty (third-person singular simple present jett, present participle ies, simple past and past participle jettied)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To jut out; to project.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Florio to this entry?)

Etymology 2

jet +‎ -y

Adjective

jetty (comparative jettier, superlative jettiest)

1. (archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.75:

     those large black eyes were so blackly fringed, / The glossy rebels mocked the jetty stain [...].

   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, vol. 1:

     She raised her face veil [...] showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing [...].

Derived terms

• jettiness

References

• “jetty”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.