"Jamb" is a word in ENGLISH

That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization.

A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly …

In mining law. The right of the owner of a mining claim duly located on tbe public domain to follow, …

The act of turning the blade of the oar, as it rises from the water in rowing, from a vertical …

A channel of curved section; -- usually applied to one of a vertical series of such channels used to decorate …

Any lizard of the family Geckonidae. The geckoes are small, carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical, elliptical …

A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.

The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side …

An instrument which draws a diagram showing the varying pressure in the cylinder of an engine or pump at every …

Having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, …

In classical architecture, a vertically faced member immediately below the circular base of a column; also, the lowest member of …

A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to …

A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more …

A form the planes of which are parallel to the vertical axis. See Form, n., 13.

An old term for a vertical section of a building; -- called also sciagraphy. See Vertical section, under Section.

A horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window above it. Transom is …

The spindle of a watch balance, especially one with pallets, as in the old vertical escapement. See under Escapement.