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Jetting   Listen
adjective
jetting  adj.  Being propelled violently in a usually narrow stream; of liquids.
Synonyms: spouting, spurting, squirting.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Jetting" Quotes from Famous Books



... supply-ship the enemy rockets had become visible. They were a thin skein of threads of white vapor which seemed to unravel in nothingness. The vapor curled and expanded preposterously. It could just be seen to be jetting into existence from four separate points, two a little ahead of the others. They came out from Earth at a rate which seemed remarkably deliberate until one saw with what fury the rocket-fumes spat out to form the whitish threads. Then one could guess at ...
— Space Tug • Murray Leinster

... Herein he came upon a trap-door which the two uplifted, when behold, they found a staircase leading below; so they descended and walked till they ended at a place with four open halls, one and all fulfilled with gold, and amiddlemost thereof rose a jetting fount twenty ells long by fifteen broad, and the whole basin was heaped up with glittering gems and precious ores. When the merchant's son saw this sight, he was wildered on his wits and perplext in his thoughts, but the man said to him, "O my son, all this hath become thine own good." ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton



Words linked to "Jetting" :   spurting, running



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