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jaum

jaum is the alternative form of jamb.

Meaning of jamb

Noun

jamb (plural jambs)

  1. (interior decorating) 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.
  2. Any thick mass of rock that prevents miners from following the lode or vein.
  3. Synonym of jambeau (“piece of armor for the leg”).
    • Wyntoun, in his Chronicle, mentions an encounter betwixt Lindsay and a Highlander, whom he had pierced with his lance, but who, while on the ground, cut at him with his twohanded sword, and, striking through his steel jambs […]1842, S.R. Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, as it Existed in Europe, Particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II: Ill. by a Series of...
    Synonyms:
    jambeau

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Forms of jaum

pluraljaums

Questions about jaum

What is jaum the alternative form of?
Jaum is the alternative form of jamb.

Words near jaum in the dictionary

  1. Jauchs
  2. Jaudon
  3. Jaudons
  4. jauhar
  5. jaulingite
  6. jaum
  7. jaumpaun
  8. jaumpauns
  9. jaums
  10. jaun
  11. jaunce

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jaum (page history and authors); jamb (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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