jamb

jamb has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. The vertical side of any opening, as a door or fireplace; hence, less properly, any narrow vertical surface of wall, as the of a chimney-breast or of a pier, as distinguished from its face.
• n.. Any thick mass of rock which prevents miners from following the lode or vein.
• v. t.. See Jam, v. t.
• n.. upright consisting of a vertical side member of a door or window frame