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n. One of a pair of vertical posts or pieces that together form the sides of a door, window frame, or fireplace, for example.

n. A projecting mass or columnar part.

n. The vertical components that form the sides of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace, or other opening in a wall.

n. 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.

n. Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following the lode or vein.

v. See jam, v. t. & i.

n. See jambes.

n. A leg.

n. The side or cheek of a helmet or shield.

n. In architecture, a side or vertical piece of any opening or aperture in a wall, such as a door, window, or chimney, which helps to bear the lintel or other member overhead serving to sustain or discharge the superincumbent weight of the wall.

n. In mining, a mass of mineral or stone in a quarry or pit standing upright, and more or less distinct from neighboring or adjoining parts. Also spelled jam.

An obsolete spelling of jam.

n. upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame

"Kennedy adds that the "jamb" in the French was so thick that the men could not bring down their arms or level a musket, and the Dragoons rode in the intervals between their formation, reaching forward with the stroke of their long swords, and slaying at will."

jambe    jambeau   

upright    vertical    frame   

jam    jambes   

doorjamb    doorpost   

Abram    Am    Cam    Dam    Durham    Graeme    Graham    Ham    Hamm    Lamb   

lintel    foliation    sill    colophon    rabbet