Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 192 Gettynge in iolyte, gestus.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxviii. i. 328 He affected to imitate the Bracmans, who..keepe a stalking and stately ietting among the altars.

1654 J. Price Tyrants & Protectors 15 May we not well remember..their man-like apparel,..their jetting, their strutting, their leg-making?

1673 Gentlewomans Compan. 37 It is an easie matter to gather the disposition of our heart, by the dimension of our Gait. A leight carriage most commonly discovers a loose inclination; as jetting and strutting, shew haughtiness, and self-conceit.

1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. lxxxxi^v These folys as it were rorynge swyne With theyr gettynge and talys of vycyousnes Trouble all suche seruyce, that is sayd.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vi. sig. H iii Besyde his iettyng in to the towne, to his gils. with caletts he consumeth hym selfe and my goods.

a1652 R. Brome Weeding of Covent-Garden i. i. 9 in Five New Playes (1659) I like the jetting out of the forepart very well; it is a gallant fashion indeed.

1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) 237 If it be a Wall for Fruit-trees, those Nooks or Corners in the Jettings out..are secure places for the more tender Trees.

1754 W. Smellie Treat. Midwifery II. i. 7 The protrusion or jetting forwards of the last Vertebra of the loins.

1760 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) III. 16 A jetting out of the rock..gave me a very convenient pulpit.

1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. v. iv. 361 Upon the jetting [of a hackney-coach]..she was thrown out of the hinder Seat.

1874 E. Coues Birds Northwest 68 Its habits are somewhat peculiar..such as the continual jetting of the tail.

1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant xxxvi. 144 The Pipes and Cocks, and Generally all that is useful to the Jettings of Water.

1849 J. D. Dana U.S. Exploring Exped.: Geol. (1850) iii. 243 A jetting of scoria, which has formed a pseudo-conglomerate.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Sea-spout, the jetting of sea-water over the adjacent lands, when forced through a perforation in a rocky shore.

1928 Jrnl. Philos. 25 530 This ‘welling up of founts innumerous’, however widely separated the jettings, has a common profound metaphysical source.

1979 Leonardo 12 133/2 More air flow produces a vigorous jetting of beads into the air like a geyser.

2004 R. M. Wright & A. V. Zegarra Machu Picchu Guidebk. (ed. 2) 114 An inlet channel of one of the fountains designed to cause a jetting of water over the wall.

1908 H. P. Gillette & C. S. Hill Concrete Constr. x. 172 Some 116 reinforced concrete piles 12 ins. in diameter were molded in air and sunk by jetting.

1914 C. E. Fowler Pract. Treat. Sub-aqueous Found. (ed. 3) v. 108 This might require a much larger equipment of boilers and pumps than would be needed for the jetting of piles.

1951 G. P. Tschebotarioff Soil Mech. xv. 445 It is not always possible to drive piles..through a compact layer of sand without serious damage to the piles... Jetting of the piles has to be used then.

1956 H. L. Nichols Mod. Techniques Excavation v. 60/1 Jetting with high pressure water, or less commonly, compressed air, is used in making deep narrow holes for setting piles, installing vertical drains, obtaining soil samples, and for various other purposes.

2007 Bismarck (N. Dakota) Tribune (Nexis) 27 Sept. a1 Several different methods were attempted to remove the piling, including jetting.

1941 Nature 5 Apr. 422/2 Work in Britain has been concentrated mainly on chemical means of protecting the host by the use of dips. Jetting has been tried in Scotland, but protective dusts have not been experimented with on a large scale.

1957 New Biol. 22 99 Jetting..consisted of spraying the breech of the sheep with a jet of fluid delivered at a pressure of up to 120 lb per square inch from a nozzle whose aperture varied between 3/64 and 5/64 of an inch. A solution of sodium arsenite was the most popular jetting fluid.

2006 Weekly Times (Austral.) (Nexis) 2 Aug. 14 Is dipping and jetting the most effective and reliable method to control lice, blowfly, ked and itch-mite?

1923 Harmsworth's Househ. Encycl. IV. 3377/1 Pockets placed in the linings of coats are usually well shaped, with the edges strengthened by a jetting.

1933 J. E. Liberty Pract. Tailoring v. 38 Jettings. These are strips of material about 9 in. long and 2 in. wide. They..are made up in two forms, flat jettings,..and as a narrow piping.

1980 H. Campbell Designing Patterns 30 (caption on pattern piece) Length of pocket... Jetting... Pocket side A... Pocket side B.

2003 A. Beazley & T. Bond Computer-aided Pattern Design iii. 112 The pocket bag hangs inside the garment. The edges are bound by a piping also known as jetting.

1969 Life 21 Feb. 50 A lot of travel. ‘Jetting about is both an advantage and a disadvantage,’ he says.

1971 Guardian 9 Sept. 11/3 It is work which involves much jetting about,..lecture tours across the States, visits to North Vietnam.

a1980 H. M. Pachter Weimar Études (1982) xvi. 339 This jetting about seems to indicate..that European scholars..still live in two worlds.

2008 Herald (Austral.) Sun (Nexis) 26 Apr. 93 Frequent jetting through time zones crumples most of us.

c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) l. 4444 Þan ȝe couett & craue castels & rewmes,..Iaspre, Iuwels, & gemmes, & Iettand perle: And all sall leue ȝow at þe laste.

c1450 ABC of Aristotle (Lamb. 853) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 12 To iettynge, ne to iangelinge, ne iape not to ofte.

1565 L. Evans in tr. W. Lindanus Certaine Tables sig. Bvi^v Onelie lecherous Luther, with his impes and ietting iesting Iuell, wolde allure men vnto the contrary.

1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 103/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II A Thrasonicall Golias..in ietting and daring wise chalenged anie one of the English armie.

1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. D4^v A ietting Iaye accomplished and braue.

1631 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlewoman 82 With a jetting and strutting pace.

1649 R. Baxter Saints Everlasting Rest (new ed.) iii. iii. 316 The jetting gorgeous well drest gallant, that must not have a pin amiss.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Yorks. 189 Some drop, some streame down, partly over, partly through a jetting rock.

1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. p. xcviii His belly a little jetting out or prominent.

1802 Brit. Essayists 5 July 222 The vast jetting coat and small bonnet, which was the habit in Henry the Seventh's time, is kept on in the yeomen of the guard.

1813 W. Scott Rokeby ii. xv. 76 Yon earth-bedded jetting stone.

1867 W. D. Howells Ital. Journeys x. 118 The receding waves rushed and poured over a jetting ledge in a thunderous cataract.

1694 Philos. Trans. 1693 (Royal Soc.) 17 991 The Pica Glandarea, or Jay, is much less than our English Jay..it has both the same Cry, and suddain jetting Motion.

1737 J. Brickell Nat. Hist. N.-Carolina 192 The Jays are here..finer Feathered than those in Europe, for these are Blue, where ours are Brown, and not above half as large, but have the same Cry, and sudden jetting Motion.

1831 R. Jameson Wilson & Bonaparte's Amer. Ornithol. II. 304 They [sc. Ground Doves] have a frequent jetting motion with the tail.

1895 P. A. Bruce Econ. Hist. Virginia 17th Cent. (1907) I. ii. 119 Both [jays] in flight had the same abrupt and jetting motion.

1992 S. Vogel Vital Circuits ix. 171 An octopus may make a sudden jetting movement, but it can't keep any decent pace.

1826 C. Daubeny Descr. Active & Extinct Volcanos 284 It was in imitation of these natural fountains, that Solomon caused to be constructed a number of Jetting Fountains.

1885 R. F. Burton tr. Arabian Nights' Entertainm. I. i. 6 They came to a jetting fountain.

1898 I. Zangwill Dreamers of Ghetto viii. 308 He strikes a dagger into his own heart, to sprinkle mockingly with the jetting black blood the ladies and gentlemen around.

1950 J. G. Davis Dict. Dairying 71 A jetting pre-rinse..raises the temperature of the bottle at the same time.

1967 Sports Afield Sept. 112/3 Pheasant Kiev is perfect if, when the breast rolls are cut, the captured butter escapes in a jetting golden stream.

1996 T. Moore Re-enchantment Everyday Life 103 The sounds of human activity, from soft footsteps to pneumatic drills,..from jetting fountains to jet planes.