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noun

Jet n. Same as 2d Get. (Obs.)

Jet n. (written also jeat, jayet) (Min.) A variety of lignite, of a very compact texture and velvet black color, susceptible of a good polish, and often wrought into mourning jewelry, toys, buttons, etc. Formerly called also black amber.

Jet ant (Zool.), a blackish European ant (Formica fuliginosa), which builds its nest of a paperlike material in the trunks of trees.

Jet n.

A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.

Drift; scope; range, as of an argument. (Obs.)

The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.

Jet propeller (Naut.), a device for propelling vessels by means of a forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal pump.

Jet pump, a device in which a small jet of steam, air, water, or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise moves, by its impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with which it mingles.

verb

Jet v. t. To spout; to emit in a stream or jet. "A dozen angry models jetted steam."

Jet v. i. (past & past part. jetted; pres. part. jetting)

To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude. (Obs.) " he jets under his advanced plumes!" "To jet upon a prince's right."

To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken. (Obs.)

To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.

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"Jet" Quotes from Famous Books

... and ran to the door of the second box stall, which had been empty since they came. There stood a noble young horse, jet black, with a single white mark on his forehead. His coat shone like satin, his eyes beamed with friendly inquiry. Already Peggy had her head against his shoulder, and was murmuring admiration in ...

— Three Margarets • Laura E. Richards

... frightened. My first impulse was to take to my skates and fly like the wind before the coming terror. Then, like a jet of cold water, came the thought of Tom's bad ankle. He had risen to his feet, however, at sight of the wolves, and evidently meant ...

— Chatterbox, 1905. • Various

... legislation of extermination, the animal sped nimbly along the ledge of a cliff, becoming visible from the ravine below, a tawny streak against the gray rock. Swift though he was, a jet of red light flashing out in the dusk was yet swifter. The echoing crags clamored with the report of a rifle. The tawny streak was suddenly still. Three boys appeared in the depths of the ravine and ...

— Down the Ravine • Charles Egbert Craddock (real name: Murfree, Mary Noailles)

... skill, we most notably succeed. Our beef is veritably beef; at its best, such beef as can be eaten in no other country under the sun; our mutton is mutton in its purest essence—think of a shoulder of Southdown at the moment when the first jet of gravy starts under the carving knife! Each of our vegetables yields its separate and characteristic sweetness. It never occurs to us to disguise the genuine flavour of food; if such a process be necessary, then something is wrong with the ...

— The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft • George Gissing

... round on his stool, and seized the end of an india-rubber tube which hung at the side of the battered and littered desk, just under a gas-jet. He spoke low, like a conspirator, into the mouthpiece of the tube. "Miss Lessways—to see you, sir." Then very quickly he clapped the tube to his ear and listened. And then he put it to his mouth again and repeated: "Lessways." ...

— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett

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