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Jamb   /dʒæm/   Listen
noun
Jamb  n.  
1.
(Arch) The vertical side of any opening, as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face.
2.
(Mining) Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following the lode or vein.


Jambeau, Jambe, Jamb  n.  See Jambes.


verb
Jamb  v. t.  See Jam, v. t. & i.





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"Jamb" Quotes from Famous Books



... himself in the doorway. It was too low for him, and he had to bend his knees oddly. He stood there as in a frame, one shoulder leaning against the jamb, his head and other ...
— Mother • Maxim Gorky
... and segmental, on account of the passage above it of the dorter stair to the church.... The southern chamber has a high pointed vault. Neither chamber has had doors, but the northern has holes in the inner jamb, suggestive of a grate of some ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark
... impossible,' he said in the same language, and simultaneously he tried to shut the door in my face. I shoved my foot against the jamb and prevented him. At the same instant my own servant and I—as, if there was to be trouble, I thought it best to keep the others out of it—applied our utmost force to the door and succeeded in snapping the chain. It might have ...
— The Albert Gate Mystery - Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective • Louis Tracy
... peering round the jamb of the door again. "If the alarm found its way upstairs I must have been walking in my sleep. While you were dreaming of suffragettes I may have been dreaming ...
— The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley • Louis Tracy
... over bottom up, while half of its thickness was cut away to fit over the door: a similar cut out was made over the window. Two flat pieces of spruce were prepared for door jambs and two shorter ones for window jambs. Auger holes were put through, so as to allow an oak pin to be driven through the jamb into each log, and the doorway ...
— Rolf In The Woods • Ernest Thompson Seton


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