JAMB

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
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. Gwilt.

2.
n.

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

3.
v.

See Jam, v. t.


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