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Bible Encyclopedias
Jamb
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from Fr. jambe, leg), in architecture, the side-post or lining of a doorway or other aperture. The jambs of a window outside the frame are called "reveals." Small shafts to doors and windows with caps and bases are known as "jamb-shafts"; when in the inside arris of the jamb of a window they are sometimes called "scoinsons."
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Jamb'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/j/jamb.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Jamb'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/j/jamb.html. 1910.
