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Jut

To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.

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Manner of action 6

Bag 76% connected

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

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Bulge 76% connected

The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

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Cantilever 76% connected

Same as Cantalever.

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Overhang 76% connected

To impend or hang over.

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Spear 76% connected

A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance.

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Thrust 76% connected

Thrist.

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Narrower term 7

Belly 76% connected

That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.

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Caput 76% connected

The head; also, a knoblike protuberance or capitulum.

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Mogul 76% connected

A person of the Mongolian race.

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Nub 76% connected

To push; to nudge; also, to beckon.

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Nubble 76% connected

To beat or bruise with the fist.

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Snag 76% connected

A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.

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Wart 76% connected

A small, usually hard, tumor on the skin formed by enlargement of its vascular papillae, and thickening of the epidermis which covers them.

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Broader term 3

Exsert 76% connected

Alt. of Exserted

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Extend 76% connected

To stretch out; to prolong in space; to carry forward or continue in length; as, to extend a line in surveying; to extend a cord across the street.

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Projection 76% connected

The act of throwing or shooting forward.

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Derivationally related 8

Hunch 74% connected

A hump; a protuberance.

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Hunch 74% connected

A hump; a protuberance.

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Protrusile 74% connected

Capable of being protruded or thrust out; protractile; protrusive.

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Protrusile 74% connected

Capable of being protruded or thrust out; protractile; protrusive.

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Protrusive 74% connected

Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion.

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Protrusive 74% connected

Thrusting or impelling forward; as, protrusive motion.

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Synonym 13

Bulge 92% connected

The bilge or protuberant part of a cask.

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Bump 92% connected

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

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Excrescence 92% connected

An excrescent appendage, as, a wart or tumor; anything growing out unnaturally from anything else; a preternatural or morbid development; hence, a tr…

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Extrusion 92% connected

The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion.

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Hump 92% connected

A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

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Jutting 92% connected

of Jut

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Project 92% connected

The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.

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Projection 92% connected

The act of throwing or shooting forward.

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Prominence 92% connected

Alt. of Prominency

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Protrude 92% connected

To thrust forward; to drive or force along.

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Protrusion 92% connected

The act of protruding or thrusting forward, or beyond the usual limit.

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Protuberance 92% connected

That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or kno…

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Swelling 92% connected

of Swell

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