From Middle English jutten (“to project, jut out”), an alteration of jetten (“to strut, be showy”). More at English jet.
Meanings
Something that sticks out.
1999, Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 3 (2001 Perennial Edition).
The town of Wall stands today as it has stood for six hundred years, on a high jut of granite amidst a small forest woodland.
From Middle English jutten (“to project, jut out”), an alteration of jetten (“to strut, be showy”). More at English jet.
Meanings
(intransitive) To stick out.
...enormous Chesterfield packs aslant on the scoreboards, a couple of cigarettes jutting from each. 1997, Don DeLillo, chapter 1, in Underworld:
the jutting part of a building
Gourock also boasted a pier railway, although its pier hugged the shore rather than jutting into the bay. 2020 October 21, Dr Joseph Brennan, “From the main line and over the waves”, in Rail, page 60:
The flight path into Hong Kong's Kai Tak airport is one of the trickiest in the world; planes approach between steep hills and over the rooftops of Kowloon City to swoop onto a strip of land that juts out into the harbor. 1994, Bruce Thomas, “Childhood”, in Bruce Lee: Fighting Spirit: A Biography by Bruce Thomas, Berkeley, California: Frog, Ltd., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 4:
1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
It seems to jut out of the structure of the poem.
(obsolete) To butt.
1772-1782, William Mason, The English Garden
the jutting steer