Lexicographical Neighbors of Jambing
Literary usage of Jambing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Decisions of the Court of Session: From November 1825 to [20th July 1841] by John Tawse, F. Somerville, John Craigie, George Robinson, Scotland Court of Session, Charles Gordon Robertson, Scotland High Court of Justiciary, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Faculty of Advocates (Scotland) (1839)
"jambing could not have happened if it " S6 run. Sharp pull might' hay,e. the'
... jambing had no effect on operation of pincers or plyers, such as those ..."
2. Technical Notes Prepared for the United States Army School of Military by School of Military Aeronautics (1918)
"B. METHODS OF PREVENTING INTERFERENCE The confusion of signals, commonly spoken
of as interference, or " jambing", results from the large number of ..."
3. The Sailor's Word-book: An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, Including by William Henry Smyth (1867)
"(See jambing.) JAMAICA DISCIPLINE. The buccaneer regulations respecting prize
... jambing, OR JAMMING. The act of inclosing any object between two bodies, ..."
4. Decisions of the Supreme Courts of England and Scotland, on the Liability of by William Hay, Great Britain Courts, Scotland Courts (1860)
"... or some one in his house, not observing that, when the handle was pushed down,
the water did not cease to flow from the jambing of the wire not allowing ..."
5. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... best endeavours to reach a depth of 2000 feet and had fai'ed, owing to the
want of lining permitting the h jle to fall in on the rods and jambing them. ..."
6. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"(2) To squeeze or to walk, eg Some one has been jambing here afore us = Some one
has walked on these ronds before us, looking for snipe. ..."
7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1873)
"The other objection is the practical impossibility of so adjusting the distance
of the screw from the circle as to prevent play without jambing the screw ..."
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