Jetty

Noun

 * 1)  A part of a building that jets or projects beyond the rest, and overhangs the wall below.
 * 2) A wharf or pier extending from the shore.
 * 3) (Hydraulic engineering): A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

Verb

 * 1)  To jut out; to project.

Adjective

 * 1)  Made of jet, or like jet in color.
 * 2) *1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, III.75:
 * those large black eyes were so blackly fringed, / The glossy rebels mocked the jetty stain [...].
 * 1) *1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, vol. 1:
 * She raised her face veil [...] showing two black eyes fringed with jetty lashes, whose glances were soft and languishing and whose perfect beauty was ever blandishing [...].

Thesaurus
abutment, anchorage, anchorage ground, arc-boutant, arch dam, backstop, bamboo curtain, bank, bar, barrage, barrier, basin, beam, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, berth, black, boom, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, buttress, buttress pier, buttressing, cofferdam, dam, defense, dike, ditch, dock, dockage, dockyard, dry dock, earthwork, ebon, ebony, embankment, fence, flying buttress, gate, gravity dam, groin, hanging buttress, harbor, harborage, haven, hydraulic-fill dam, inky, iron curtain, jam, jet, jutty, landing, landing place, landing stage, leaping weir, levee, logjam, marina, milldam, moat, mole, moorings, mound, parapet, pier, pier buttress, pitch-black, pitch-dark, port, portcullis, protected anchorage, quay, rampart, raven, retaining wall, road, roadblock, roads, roadstead, rock-fill dam, sable, seaport, seawall, shipyard, shoulder, shutter dam, slip, stone wall, wall, weir, wharf, wicket dam, work

Etymology 1
From jetée ‘pier, jetty, causeway’. Compare jet, jutty.

Etymology 2
From jet + -y.

Noun

 * Chinese: 防波堤 (fáng bō dī); 突碼頭, 突码头 (tū mǎtou)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Anlegestelle
 * Greek: λιμενοβραχίονας (limenovrakhíonas)
 * Hungarian:


 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 突堤 (tottéi)
 * Korean: 방파제 (bangpaje)
 * Portuguese: quebra-mar
 * Russian: волнорез, мол
 * Spanish: