Jamb

What do we mean by jamb?

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. noun

An obsolete spelling of jam.

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. noun

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

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 noun

(interior decorating) Either of the vertical components that form the side of an opening in a wall, such as that of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace.

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

Words that are spelled similarly to jamb:
jamb.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word jamb:
lintel, doorway, capitals, chancel, lagos, nigerian, carved, statues, door, continent, porch, examination, window, doors, stones, question, candidates, panel, wall, wooden, roof, tower, windows, entrance, remains, figures, figure, castle, length, secondary, rural, stone, give, above, village.

Words that rhyme with jamb:
program, lamb, ram, jam, dam, slam, sham, damn, diagram, cam, scam, anagram, ham, clam, programme, epigram, am, lam, cram, diaphragm, dram, spam, gram, exam, yam, sam, madame, damm, hologram, tram, tam, bam, abraham, monogram, scram, nam, pam, cham, flimflam, flam, goddamn, histogram, engram, telegram, graham, siam, logjam, kilogram, wham, dithyramb, electrocardiogram, durham, mammogram, priam, wolfram, flambe, swam, amsterdam, alam, sonogram, polygram, kam, buckingham, birmingham, abram, fram, potsdam, gramme, goddam, mme, stam, graeme, milligram, bram, grand slam, viet nam, coram, oxfam, sram, logogram, uncle sam, hamm, dagenham, microgram, cunningham, stram, rotterdam, traffic jam, damme, sdram, centigram, i am, strawberry jam, nottingham, beckham, computer program, plam, tham, tottenham, cablegram.

Adjectives that are often used to describe jamb:
left, right, north, south, east, west, door, western, eastern, hand, opposite, northern, southern, wooden, top, inner, side, outer, chimney, splayed, finished, front, vertical, double, interior, upper, rabbeted, moulded, sculptured, exterior, outside, splintered, carved, horizontal, inside, inch, gothic, rebated, square, corresponding, rough, overhead, flood, broken, upright, decorated, bottom, rear, chamfered, paneled, adjacent, portal, shattered, back, flat, concrete, plastered, southwest, oblique, inscribed, southeast, massive, fallen, wall, plain, metal, split, opening, hollow, fragmentary, rude.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective jamb:
shafts, stones, shaft, doorway, nut, stone, wall, posts, lining, figures, return, rock, units, door, weatherstripping.

Consonant match to jamb:
jam, gem, gym, germ, jim, jem, gemme, djembe, germe, gehm.

Words that sound like jamb:
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