1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, inRailway Magazine, page265:
In the floor of the valley the line passes hills of fantastic shape, like sleeping camels and inverted washbasins, and you can see the beautiful lakes Naivasha and Elementeita; at Eburrujets of steam spurt out of the ground.
The Town has the outer Branch of the River behind it, and the Harbour before it,jetting into which latter are cloſe Keys for the weighing and receiving of Cuſtomage on Merchandize, and for the meeting and conferring of Merchants and Traders.
To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how hejets under his advanced plumes!
To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
1719, Richard Wiseman, Serjeant-Chirurgeon to King Charles II,Eight Chirurgical Treatises, London: B. Tooke et al., 5th edition, Volume 2, Book 5, Chapter 4, p. 78,[1]
A Lady was wounded down the whole Length of the Forehead to the Nose[…] It happened to her travelling in a Hackney-Coach, upon thejetting whereof she was thrown out of the hinder Seat against a Bar of Iron in the forepart of the Coach.
To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetorjet
1970, Bill Fisher,How to Hotrod Volkswagen Engines[2], page30:
The cure is tojet the carburetor excessively rich so that the mixture will be correct at the top end, but this richens the curve throughout the RPM range.
Pimp prollyjetted before the girl hit the ground good, and if Smoove was still standing on the porch when his brother got downstairs, he'd taken off with him.
1735, [John Barrow], “JEAT”, inDictionarium Polygraphicum: Or, The Whole Body of Arts Regularly Digested.[…], volume II (I–S), London:[…] C[harles] Hitch and C[harles] Davis[…], and S[amuel] Austen[…],→OCLC:
There is also a factitiousjeat made of glaſs, in imitation of the mineraljeat.
1901, Franklin Beech,The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics: A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student:
All the direct blacks require working in strong baths to give anything like black shades; they all have, more or less, a bluish tone, which can be changed to ajetter shade by the addition of a yellow or green dye in small proportions, which has been done in one of the recipes given above.
1939,Raymond Chandler,The Big Sleep, Penguin, published2011, page23:
She was an ash blonde with greenish eyes, beaded lashes, hair waved smoothly back from ears in which largejet buttons glittered.
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