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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



... the most careful of investigators, and, when the medium's trap is located in the door-jamb, will pound the walls, and insist on the carpet being taken up, when they will get upon their hands and knees and make a most searching examination of the floor. They are the closest and most critical of investigators, but they are very ...
— The Lock and Key Library/Real Life #2 • Julian Hawthorne
... the enemy possesses an equipment which is within range of that of the air-craft and the force to which it belongs, communications may be nullified by the enemy throwing out a continuous stream of useless signals which "jamb" the intelligence ...
— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot
... luncheon, and he passed in briskly, meaning to ring the bell and give orders to have the meal served at once. But, as he stepped across the low sill somebody rose in the room's cool shadow and confronted him, and he fell back catching at the jamb for ...
— Major Vigoureux • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... 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 Albert Gate Mystery - Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective • Louis Tracy
... thoughtfully, looked hard at Butsey and paid. Laloo followed them to the door, leaned against the jamb and gazed down ...
— The Varmint • Owen Johnson


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