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Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)

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First published 1965 (SND Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1730, 1834

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OUTJET, n. A projection, jutting-out part of a building.Sc. 1730 A. Gordon Maffei's Amphith. 206:
For counter ballancing the Out-jet or Projection above.
Sc. 1834 H. Miller Scenes and Leg. (1857) iii., xxiv.:
The outjets and buttresses of an ancient fortress. . . . A small apartment formed by an outjet of the cottage.

[Out + Jet. Once in Eng. as outjetty (1650), then in Urquhart Jewel (1652) from whom Miller prob. adopted it, since he quotes Urquhart's usage in ch. vii., op. cit.]

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