Definitions for jamb

jamb jamb

Spelling: [jam]
IPA: /dʒæm/

Jamb is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 24 anagrams from letters in jamb (abjm).

Definitions for jamb

noun

  1. Architecture, Building Trades. either of the vertical sides of a doorway, arch, window, or other opening. either of two stones, timbers, etc., forming the sidepieces for the frame of an opening.
  2. Armor. greave.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. jam1 .

Origin of jamb

1350-1400; Middle English jambe Middle French: leg, jamb Late Latin gamba, variant of camba pastern, leg Greek kampḗ bend of a limb

Examples for jamb

All the rear rows break into a trot and jamb up to the front in turn.

But that jamb is merely the back of a small cupboard in the hall.

Fig. 22 is a part of the jamb molding of a church in Vicenza.

The hub caught on the jamb, and the muzzle gaped on the crowd.

It is used for making fast a rope so that the strain will not jamb hitches.

Takes the ax and pounds with it between the jamb and the lock.

The shafts are detached, and there is foliage on the jamb between them.

jamb, not jam is the spelling of the side-piece of a door, window or fire-place.

Against the jamb of the window, behind them all, Willie Carr stood leaning.

With a hollow sound the door fell inward, taking with it the jamb.

Word Value for jamb
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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