3. The sprue of a type, which is broken from it when the type is cold.
Knight.
Jet propeller (Naut.), a device for propelling vessels by means of a
forcible jet of water ejected from the vessel, as by a centrifugal
pump. -- Jet pump, a device in which a small jet of steam, air, water,
or other fluid, in rapid motion, lifts or otherwise moves, by its
impulse, a larger quantity of the fluid with which it mingles.
Jet, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Jetted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Jetting.] [F.
jeter, L. jactare, freq. fr. jacere to throw. See 3d Jet, and cf. Jut.]
1. To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to
obtrude. [Obs.]
he jets under his advanced plumes!
Shak.
To jet upon a prince's right.
Shak.