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.
Synonym of jambeau (“piece of armor for the leg”).
Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein.
To fix or attach a jamb to.
A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
A young herring.
The shaft or thill of a carriage.
A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.
The inner edge of the bottom of an embrasure.
A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
A threshold or brink across the bottom of a canal lock for the gates to shut against.
A raised area at the base of the nasal aperture in the skull.
Silly.