Jamb
Either side of an opening for a door, window or chimney that sustains a superincumbent load. These can be of wood or stone, ornate or plain.
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Jamb - The vertical face of an archway, doorway, or window; the part of the jamb which lies between the glass or door and the outer wall-surface is called a reveal.
Jamb: the side of a doorway or window frame. The jambs of the portals of Romanesque and Gothic churches are frequently decorated with figure sculpture.
South Portal from the Church of Saint Pierre, Moissac, c. 1115-30.
jamb
One of the lateral upright surfaces of an opening; a piece forming the side of an opening.
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Jamb - One of a pair of vertical parts that form the side of a door.
Labyrinth - A symbolic maze which for our purposes applies to the intricate symmetrical diagrams found on Cathedral floors.
Jamb: One of a pair of vertical posts or pieces, that together form the sides of a portal, which often contains sculptures (fig.3, G). The individual columns can also be referred to as jambshafts, which often support an arch or vault.
jamb figures - located on either side of the main portal door; the first carved figures a visitor meets on a visit to a Gothic cathedral. Traditionally depicting Old Testament prophets or martyred saints.
Jamb - An upright piece forming the side of an opening, as a door or fireplace.
Jerry Built - Built cheaply and unsubstantially.
Jamb - One of a pair of vertical posts or pieces forming the sides of a door, window frame, or fireplace
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Jamb depth: Width of the window frame from inside to outside.
Jamb liner: The plastic or metal track installed in the jambs of the window in which the window sash slide.
Jamb - The part of the window frame that surrounds and contracts the window or sash the frame is intended to support. In doors, it's a surface forming the sides of the opening.
JAMB The vertical side of a fireplace opening, doorway, window, etc.
KEYSTONE The central stone or brick in an arch.
LABEL STOP An ornament terminating a hood-mould.
Jamb: Side part of a doorway or window.
Joist: Horizontal structural timber used in flat roof, ceiling and floor construction. Occasionally also metal.
Jamb - Side posts of arch, door, or window.
Joggled - Keyed together by overlapping joints.
Joist - Wall-to-wall timber beams to support floor boards.
jamb (10) -- a base, usually of stone, for a door frame (Warren, 143) Sample Image (Lesson 20)
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Jamb Vertical side of a doorway or window.
Jointing The mortar bedding between bricks or stones.
Joist A timber or steel beam directly supporting a floor or ceiling.
Jamb The vertical side face of a timber door frame or window.
Joist A timber or steel beam directly supporting a floor or a ceiling. Steel beams are usually referred to as RSJs (rolled steel joists).
jamb: side post of doorway or window.
keep: the tower or innermost stronghold of a medieval castle.
key: the central voussoir, sometimes decorated, at the crown of an arch.
JAMB
A vertical post supporting a window frame or doorway.
JOIST
A timber stretched from wall-to-wall to support floorboards.
Jamb
The vertical sides of a door or window opening. Sometimes used as a surface for sculptural decoration.
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This is the Turkish word for castle, e.g.: "Kars Kalesi" which means Kars castle.
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Jamb The vertical members of a window or door frame.
Jenkins-head Roof A gabled roof with its apex truncated by a small hipped roof.
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Jamb : The vertical side masonry of a door, window or portal entranceway, often a place for the setting of statuary.
Image at right: Jamb Statuary within the west portal at Rheims in France.
Jamb
- now usually taken to simply describe the vertical sides to a window or door opening. Properly used, it only relates to those vertical parts which support the lintel.
Jamb - a vertical element of a doorway or window frame.
Key Stone - the voussoir at the top of an arch. It is important structurally since it marks the apex of the vault.
Khirbet - Arabic word meaning ancient ruin.
Jamb The main vertical members forming the sides of a window or door frame.
Jamb liner The track in single-hung or double-hung window frame jambs on which the sashes slide.
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jamb - the straight vertical side of a doorway or window
joist - horizontal structural members to which the boards of a floor or the lath for a ceiling are nailed ...
Jamb liner: Metal or plastic covering the inside surface and head jambs of sliding windows.
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JAMB: the vertical face of an archway, doorway, or window KEYSTONE: the central stone of a true arch of rib vault LANTERN: a small circular or polygonal turret with windows all round, ...
Barrel Bolt - A door fastener with a metal rod or bar that runs the case, entering a hole in the jamb. Sizes range from thumb slides to tower blots.
jamb A vertical post supporting a window frame or doorway. Kaiserdom In German, a imperial cathedral (i.e. associated with a Holy Roman Emperor). keystone A wedge-shaped or tapered stone placed at the top of an arch or vault.
The type continued well into the 17th century in its modified forms: L-plan, with a jamb or wing at one corner; Z-plan, with a jamb or wing at each diagonally opposite corner.
4. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) (often plural) a side of a door jamb
5. (Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical one of the two fore-and-aft supports for the trestletrees on a mast of a sailing vessel, forming part of the hounds ...
If there is a central door jamb or a tremeu, then it frequently bears a statue of the Madonna and Child.
 See also: Door, Frame, Ornament, House, Masonry
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