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Meanings of jamb (jambed) in English
Usage of jambed in English
1
The ground-floor consisted of various levels joined by steps and wide-jambed doors.
2
For all that, he went in and saw the diver had opened the jambed door.
3
But for some reason or other the missile jambed.
4
Engine-room doors jambed, but I found the stokehold grating and got some way down the ladder.
5
She stopped there twenty minutes, jambed down on her bilge while the sea came on board.
6
Tom was jambed against the rock by the snow; he was nearest to the entrance, his uncle was next to him.
7
Finally, when no more can fall in, piece after piece is jambed in by a pricker, and the cask is bunged up.
8
A big stone fell beside the man as he seized another prop and with a tense effort jambed it under the beam.
9
"If only that damned pump hadn't jambed," said my father.
10
"The helm is jambed hard a-starboard!"
11
The pressure increased; the space between the door and the jamb widened.
12
By the size of the counter-holes in the jamb of the door.
13
It came free of the swollen jamb with a brief grinding noise.
14
The cook reached out his hand into the darkness alongside the jamb.
15
Marius remained on the threshold, leaning against the jamb of the door.
16
The woman behind those portières swayed and caught blindly at the jamb.
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Translations for jambed
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Catalan
Jambed through the time