projecture
nounEtymology Latin projectura: compare French projecture.
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Archaic Something that juts out beyond a surface; a projection.
- I now found myself on the projecture of a rock: above and below, the hill-side was nearly perpendicular. Opposite, at the distance of fifteen or twenty yards, was a similar ascent: at the bottom was a glen, cold, narrow, and obscure. The projecture, which served as a kind of vestibule to the cave, was connected with a ledge, by which, though not without peril and toil, I was conducted to the summit.1799, Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Huntly, or The Sleep Walker, Chapter 10: