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Gamb

//ɡamb// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The leg or shank, typically of an animal, especially of a lion, on a coat of arms, crest, etc.

    "Vachell, Eng. a bull's gamb in pale, couped, argent. […] Vaughan of Littleton, Middlesex, a lion's gamb, or, holding a human heart, gules."

  2. 2
    A person's leg; gam. slang

    "[…] but Heavens above what a pair of gambs! Stems. What the vulgar call legs."

Etymology

From Middle French gambe (variant of jambe) from Late Latin gamba (hoof, leg, shank). Doublet of jamb, gamba, and gam.

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