jambs in English

noun
1
a side post or surface of a doorway, window, or fireplace.
Salvaged doors and windows housed in new jambs set up contrasts between new and old.

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1. A retrofit may involve putting in new door jambs.

2. The sides, or jambs, must also be straight, plumb and square with the sill.

3. Along with recreation of the building's doors, IPF Craftspeople will also repair/replace the sills, jambs, hinges and copper caps

4. Be sure that your home is well insulated (double glazing, air-tight joints along door and window jambs, etc).

5. The chimney jambs and all the bricks inside were very sooty, so that I thought this fire- place made a very appropriate little shrine or chapel for his Congo idol.

6. Just as you need acoustic door jambs to seal off the outside vertical sides and top of your door, these Astragals are used to seal off the vertical meeting point at …

7. Stone walling, flooring, lintels, and jambs had appeared sporadically during the Archaic Period, though it is true that a building of the size of the step pyramid made entirely out of stone had never before been constructed.

8. ‘Rounded Bullnose corners don't cost much more, but they give walls a special, thick, plaster-like look.’ ‘Masons also can calculate various CMU configurations (half and full Bullnose, double Bullnose, chamfer, or sash) for all openings, jambs, comers, control joints, and any special cuts.’