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 alter or transform.
To lie or run across; to cross.
To overturn.
To traverse or thwart.
Anything that is transverse or athwart.
The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.
(of an intersection) Not tangent, so that a nondegenerate angle is formed between the two things intersecting.
Made at right angles to the long axis of the body.
Situated or lying across; side to side, relative to some defined "forward" direction; perpendicular or slanted relative to the "forward" direction; identified with movement across areas.