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Jetting   /dʒˈɛtɪŋ/   Listen
Jetting

adjective
1.
Propelled violently in a usually narrow stream.  Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting.






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"Jetting" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hereupon he entered, sore in fear of the people of the house, and found himself in a handsome saloon with four dais'd recesses, each facing other, and containing closets and raised seats, all bespread with stuffs of silk and brocade; and in the midst was a jetting fountain of costly fashion, on whose margin rested a covered tray of meats, with a leather tablecloth hanging up and gem-encrusted dishes, full of fruits and sweet- scented flowers. Hard by stood drinking vessels and a candlestick ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... latter went into action, jetting orange flame. In the searchlights' glare, spurts of white water danced all round the submarine. A mutter of gunfire rolled over to the Assyrian, abruptly silenced by an imperative deep voice of heavier ...
— The False Faces • Vance, Louis Joseph

... velocity, along the surface. The boat was dragged violently in his wake, and cut through the billows with a terrific rapidity, that at moments appeared to bury the slight fabric in the ocean. When long Tom beheld his victim throwing his spouts on high again, he pointed with exultation to the jetting fluid, which was streaked with the deep red of ...
— The Pilot • J. Fenimore Cooper



Words linked to "Jetting" :   squirting, running, spouting



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