"jut" in the noun sense
1. bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
"the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"
"the hump of a camel"
"he stood on the rocky prominence"
"the occipital protuberance was well developed"
"the bony excrescence between its horns"
2. protrusion, projection, jut, jutting
the act of projecting out from something
"jut" in the verb sense
1. stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project
extend out or project in space
"His sharp nose jutted out"
"A single rock sticks out from the cliff"
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