Definizione monolingua

jetty

jetty (third-person singular simple present jetties, present participle jettying, simple past and past participle jettied)

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

jetty (plural jetties)

1. (architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
2. A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
3. (Hydraulic engineering): A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

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 [...].

Definizione dizionario jetty

molo

imbarcadero

pontile

	nero intenso
	Of the blackest black.

banchina

frangiflutti

frangionda

gettata

Altri significati:

(archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.

(Hydraulic engineering): A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

A wharf or pier extending from the shore.

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

(architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.