Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein.
Synonym of jambeau (“piece of armor for the leg”).
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.
To fix or attach a jamb to.
An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock.
A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian.
A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young.
A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger.
A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively.
The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.
A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods.
A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation.
A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls.
A retreat, or place of habitual resort.
A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den.
A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young.
A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.
A fortified position for a weapon.
To successively neatly fit inside another.
To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on).
To build or settle into a nest.
To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting").
To settle into a home.
To place in, or as if in, a nest.