ajutmentn.
/əˈdʒʌtm(ə)nt/, U.S. /əˈdʒətm(ə)nt/ A jutting out; a projection.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part
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1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple III. v. 64 Each hill, at its ajutment towards the sea, crowned with a fort.
1878 Fishing Gaz. 27 Sept. 457/1 We dropped upon a kind of backwash caused by an ajutment of the bank.
1938 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Joseph & Brothers I. i. 54 Castellated forts..whose sides and ajutments rose in ingenious broken lines to the parapets.
1995 T. Verhaaren tr. A. Krämer Samoa Islands II. vi. 246 There is on one side of the kava bowl between two legs a diamond-shaped pierced ajutment.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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