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quayside
English
Etymology
quay +? side
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ki?sa?d/
Noun
quayside (plural quaysides)
- (also attributive) An area alongside a quay.
Translations
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jetty
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??ti/
- Rhymes: -?ti
Etymology 1
From French jetée (“pier, jetty, causeway”), from jeter. Compare jet, jutty.
Noun
jetty (plural jetties)
- A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
- A wharf or dock extending from the shore.
- (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
Verb
jetty (third-person singular simple present jetties, present participle jettying, simple past and past participle jettied)
- (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)
- (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 [...].
- 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.75:
Derived terms
- jettiness
References
- jetty in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- “jetty”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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