From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
jut
n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects
from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an
obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the
rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well
developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn:
bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity,
gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance,
protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]
2: the act of projecting out from something [syn: protrusion,
projection, jut, jutting]
v 1: extend out or project in space; "His sharp nose jutted
out"; "A single rock sticks out from the cliff" [syn:
stick out, protrude, jut out, jut, project]