To fix or attach a jamb to.
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.
Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein.
To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
To make a cut at the side of the face.
To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar.
To steal.
To arrest.
To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state.
A police station or prison.
A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.