Synonyms for jamb
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : jam |
| Phonetic Transcription : dʒæm |
Définition of jamb
Origin :- side-piece of a door, window, etc., early 14c., from Old French jambe "pier, side post of a door," originally "a leg, shank" (12c.), from Late Latin gamba "leg, (horse's) hock" (see gambol).
- noun pillar
- Takes the ax and pounds with it between the jamb and the lock.
- Extract from : « Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) » by Frank Wedekind
- Fig. 22 is a part of the jamb molding of a church in Vicenza.
- Extract from : « Wood-Carving » by George Jack
- With a hollow sound the door fell inward, taking with it the jamb.
- Extract from : « It Could Be Anything » by John Keith Laumer
- All the rear rows break into a trot and jamb up to the front in turn.
- Extract from : « For Fortune and Glory » by Lewis Hough
- It is used for making fast a rope so that the strain will not jamb hitches.
- Extract from : « How Girls Can Help Their Country » by Juliette Low
- The hub caught on the jamb, and the muzzle gaped on the crowd.
- Extract from : « The Countess of Charny » by Alexandre Dumas (pere)
- The shafts are detached, and there is foliage on the jamb between them.
- Extract from : « Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain » by George Edmund Street
- But that jamb is merely the back of a small cupboard in the hall.
- Extract from : « The Vanishing of Betty Varian » by Carolyn Wells
- Against the jamb of the window, behind them all, Willie Carr stood leaning.
- Extract from : « The Grey Lady » by Henry Seton Merriman
- Jamb, not jam is the spelling of the side-piece of a door, window or fire-place.
- Extract from : « Every-Day Errors of Speech » by L. P. Meredith
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