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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Swift.
  • noun An obsolete form of jamb.
  • noun [OF.: see jamb. Cf. jambieres.] Armor for the leg, sometimes made of cuir-bouilli, but most frequently of metal, much used during the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. See solleret, and second cut under armor.
  • noun In heraldry, same as gamb.

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