Jet v.²

Forms: 6–8 jett, (8 jeat), 7– jet; see also JUT v. [a. F. jeter (14–16th c. also jetter, Cotgr. jecter) to throw, cast; to fling, dart, thrust, push, cast metal, etc. = Pr. gitar, getar, Sp. jitar, jetar, It. gittare, gettare:—late L. or Com. Rom. type *jettare:—jectare ‘unexplained alteration’ of cl.L. jactāre, freq. of jacĕre to throw, cast.]

  I.  † 1. intr. To shoot prominently forward; to project, protrude, jut. Const. out, over. Obs.

1593.  Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 76. Thy streets were paued with Marble, and thy houses ietted out with Iaphy and Cedar.

1615.  G. Sandys, Trav., 116. The houses … jetting over aloft like the poopes of ships, to shadow the streets.

1640.  trans. Verdere’s Romant of Rom., III. vii. 28. A Window, that jetted upon the Garden.

1657.  R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 83. Some … bear fruits which jett out from the stem a little.

1749.  L. Evans, Mid. Brit. Colonies (1755), 8, note. Spurs we call little Ridges jetting out from the principal Chains of Mountains.

1762.  Bp. Forbes, Jrnls. (1886), 228. A moss-grown Ruine, jetting into the North Side of the Lake.

  fig.  1655.  Fuller, Ch. Hist., IX. v. § 2. Enough hereof at this time, having jetted out a little already into the next year.

1662.  Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., verse 18. I. xviii. (1669), 362/2. That thy faith may not jet beyond the foundation of the promise.

  † b.  intr. (transf.) To encroach on or upon.

1588.  Shaks., Tit. A., II. i. 64 (Qos.). Thinke you not how dangerous It is to iet [Fos. set] vpon a Princes right? Ibid. (1594), Rich. III., II. iv. 51 (Qos.). Insulting tyranny beginnes to iet [1623 Folio Iutt] Upon the innocent and lawlesse throane.

c. 1590.  Play Sir T. More (1844), 2. It is hard when Englishmens pacience must be thus jetted on by straungers.

1636.  Heywood, Loves Mistr., I. Wks. 1874, V. 104. A … foole, Who spights at those above him,… and his equalls jets upon.

  † 2.  trans. To build out (part of a house, etc.); to cause to project, to furnish with projections.

1632.  Manchester Crt. Leet Rec. (1886), III. 192. John Gryffin hath Jetted out his chamber Windowes over the Lords Wast.

1667.  Obs. Burn. London, in Sel. fr. Harl. Misc. (1793), 449. Magistrates … have suffered them … to incroach upon the streets, and to jet the tops of their houses, so as from one side of the street to touch the other.

1714.  Derham, Phys.-Theol., III. iv. (ed. 2), 79. That … it [the earth] should be jetted out everywhere into Hills and Dales … is a manifest Sign of an especial Providence.

  II.  3. To throw, cast, toss. Obs. exc. dial.

1659.  D. Pell, Impr. Sea, 407. As the ball that is jetted to and fro upon the racket. Ibid., 414. They have no mind to bee jetted up to the Heavens in a storm.

1877.  N. W. Linc. Gloss., Jet, to throw with a jerk.

  † 4.  intr. To spring, hop, bound, dart. Obs.

1635.  Quarles, Embl., III. i. Like as the haggard, cloister’d in her mew,… Jets oft from perch to perch.

1647.  H. More, Song of Soul, II. iii. III. xxxiv. Not more heavie then dry straws that jet Up to a ring, made of black shining jeat.

1827.  Montgomery, Pelican Isl., VII. 174. He hoped to see … The wingless squirrel jet from tree to tree.

  † 5.  intr. To move or be moved with a jerk or jerks; to jolt or jog. Obs.

a. 1635.  Corbet, Poems (1807). 95. I on an ambling nag did jet,… And spur’d him on each side.

1676.  Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., 361 (J.). It [a face wound] happened to her travelling in a Hackney-Coach, upon the jetting whereof she was thrown out of the hinder Seat against a Bar of Iron.

  † 6.  intr. Of a bird: To move the tail up and down jerkily. Obs.

1657.  R. Ligon, Barbadoes (1673), 60. As she [a bird] sits on a stick, jets, and lifts up her train, looking with so earnest and merry a countenance.

1783.  Ainsworth, Lat. Dict. (Morell), V. Todeo, -ere,… to jet up and down like a wagtail.

  III.  7. intr. To spout or spurt forth; to issue in a jet or jets, or curve in the form of a jet d’eau.

1692.  Ray, Dissol. World, II. ii. 96. Springs break out after great rains which jet and spout up a great height.

1730.  A. Gordon, Maffei’s Amphith., 168. Pipes, by which … they caused odoriferous Liquor to spring up from the bottom to the top of the Amphitheatre, which then jetted and spread itself in the Air.

a. 1854.  H. Reed, Lect. Brit. Poets, iii. (1857), 101. That quiet humour which is forever jetting out of Chaucer’s pages.

1862.  Tyndall, Mountaineer., xi. 90. We … observe the smoke of a distant cataract jetting from the side of the mountain.

  8.  trans. To emit or send forth in a jet or jets.

1708.  Motteux, Rabelais, I. lv. 158. The Three Graces, with their Cornucopia’s,… did jet out the Water [earlier edd. jert, orig. jectoyent l’eau] at their Breasts, Mouth, Ears, Eyes.

1814.  Scott, Ld. of Isles, I. xviii. Conflicting tides that foam and fret, And high their mingled billows jet.

1849.  Dana, Geol., vii. (1850), 356. The lavas may be jetted from a vent in small ejections.

  Hence Jetted, † Jet ppl. a.

1709.  Mrs. Manley, Secret Mem. (1736), II. 49. In that Chamber was a large jet-out Window.

1762.  Ustick, in Phil. Trans., LII. 512. Every one of the windows of the church, (excepting one in the jet-out north-isle).

1864.  S. Ferguson, Forging of Anchor, ii.