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The definition of a jamb is the framing that makes the side of a door or window.
(noun)An example of a jamb is the part of a door that a bolt goes into when a door is locked.
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See jamb in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- a side post or piece of a framed opening, as for a door, window, or fireplace
- a pillar of ore
Origin: ME jambe < OFr, a leg, shank, pier, side post of a door: see gamb
See jamb in American Heritage Dictionary 4
also jambe
noun- One of a pair of vertical posts or pieces that together form the sides of a door, window frame, or fireplace, for example.
- A projecting mass or columnar part.
Origin:
Origin: Middle English jambe
Origin: , from Old French, leg, jamb
Origin: , from Late Latin gamba, horse's hock, leg; see gambol
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