Jaum

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of jamb. alt-of, alternative, obsolete

    "1703, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises, London: D. Midwinter & T. Leigh, 3rd edition, p. 143, But if the Window-Frame stands on a Timber-house, the Head and Ground-sell are sometimes Tennanted into Posts of the Carcass; and then the Posts do the Office of the outer Jaums of the Window-Frame […]"

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aegisanklearmorbalusterbalustradebanister

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"1703, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises, London: D. Midwinter & T. Leigh, 3rd edition, p. 143, But if the Window-Frame stands on a Timber-house, the Head and Ground-sell are sometimes Tennanted into Posts of the Carcass; and then the Posts do the Office of the outer Jaums of the Window-Frame […]"

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