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

noun. A projecting mass or columnar part.

An obsolete spelling of jam.

noun. A leg.

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

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

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

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

noun. See jambes.

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

noun. 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  

frame  upright  vertical  

doorjamb  doorpost  

Abram  Am  Cam  Dam  Durham  

colophon  foliation  lintel  rabbet  sill  

Samson post  ankle  baluster  balustrade  banister  

jam  jambes