outjet

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ jet.

Noun

outjet (plural outjets)

1. (archaic) That which sticks out or projects; a protrusion or projection.
   • 1854, Hugh Miller, My Schools and Schoolmasters:

     I shook them in a manner that must have exerted no small leverage power on the outjet beneath

References

• “outjet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.