LekhoriLekhoriTo extend from, above or beyond a surface or boundary; to bulge outward; to stick out.
The old woman's face was wrinkled; her two remaining teeth protruded over her under lip; and her eyes were bright and piercing.
To cause to extend from a surface or boundary; to cause to stick out.
With thoſe that ſtretcht along the Weſtern Coaſt; / To whom the old Creonian Towns were loſt, / Where high Epidium midſt th' Hibernian Waves, / Protrudes his Head, and all their Monſters braves.
To thrust forward; to drive or force along.
1566, William Painter, The Palace of Pleasure, London: Richard Tottell and William Jones, Volume 1, The .xlj. Nouell, […] ye people standyng round about […] cried out, incontinently for the deliuerie of the Ladie, & for vengeaunce to be taken of hym, whiche so wickedly had protruded her into that daunger:
From Latin prōtrūdō, prōtrūdere.
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