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JETTY-HEAD
JETTY-HEAD, a name usually given, in the royal dock-yards, to that part of a wharf which projects beyond the rest; but more particularly the front of a wharf, whose side forms one of the cheeks of a dry or wet dock.
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© Derived from Thomas Cadell's new corrected edition, London: 1780, page 161, 2003
Prepared by Paul Turnbull
http://southseas.nla.gov.au/refs/falc/0742.html