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Definition of Jetties
1. jetty [v] - See also: jetty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jetties
Literary usage of Jetties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Improvement of Rivers: A Treatise on the Methods Employed for Improving by Benjamin Franklin Thomas, David Alexander Watt (1913)
"Dredging Combined with jetties.—Dredging combined with jetties or training ...
jetties.—The object of jetties is to confine and thereby concentrate the flow ..."
2. Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers by Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) (1890)
""jetties as applied to Harbour Entrances in the United States." By Professor
LEWIS M. HAUPT, M. Am. Soc. CE ALTHOUGH nearly four centuries have elapsed ..."
3. Harbours and Docks: Their Physical Features, History, Construction by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1885)
"Parallel jetties at River Mouths. General Remarks. THERE are two forms of Jetty
Harbours, namely, those whose entrance channels are guided and protected by ..."
4. Harbours and Docks: Their Physical Features, History, Construction by Leveson Francis Vernon-Harcourt (1885)
"Parallel jetties at River Mouths. General Remarks. THERE are two forms of Jetty
Harbours, namely, those whose entrance channels are guided and protected by ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The solid northern jetties of the Wear and the Yare have naturally produced a
similar advance of their northern beaches, both being exposed to a ..."
6. An Elementary Course of Civil Engineering by Joseph Mathieu Sganzin (1837)
"A channel limited by two jetties communicating with the sea, a harbor which is not
... jetties. A jettie is a species of dyke, the direction of which is ..."
7. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"So that in applying jetties to permanently deepening the bar of the Southwest
... Mr. Eads, on the contrary, believed that the jetties would greatly retard ..."
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