Definition of "jetty"

jetty¹

/ˈd͡ʒɛti/

noun
plural jetties
1. A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor or beach.
  Quotations
  [I]nſtead of demolition, they found conſtruction; for the French vvere then at vvork on the repair of the jettees. On the remonſtrances of General [Henry Seymour] Convvay, ſome parts of theſe jettees were immediately deſtroyed.
  1769, [Edmund Burke], Observations on a Late State of the Nation, London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], page 86
2. A dock or wharf extending from the shore; a pier.
3. (architecture) A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
verb
third-person singular simple present jetties, present participle jettying, simple past and past participle jettied
1. (obsolete, intransitive) To jut out; to project.
  Quotations
  ADENTELLARE […] It is properly to jetty out, or indent stones or timber of any unfinished building, that another may the easier be joyned unto, or that finished.
  1598, John Florio, A Worlde of Wordes, or Dictionarie of the Italian and English tongues

jetty²

/ˈd͡ʒɛti/

adjective
comparative jettier, superlative jettiest
1. (archaic) Made of jet, or like jet in color.
  Quotations
  Blacke are his colloures, blacke Pauillion,His ſpeare, his ſhield, his horſe, his armour, plumes,And Ietty Feathers menace death and hell,UUithout reſpect of ſex, degree or age.
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act IIII, scene i
  those large black eyes were so blackly fringed, / The glossy rebels mocked the jetty stain [...].
  1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.75
  But there was only Glorvina of the jetty ringlets with whom his intercourse was familiar, and this dashing young woman was not bent upon loving the Major, but rather on making the Major admire her […]
  1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848
  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 […]
  1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, volume 1