jamn.1
/dʒam/, U.S. /dʒæm/ 1.
a. The action of jamming; the fact or condition of being jammed, or tightly packed or squeezed, so as to prevent movement; a crush, a squeeze; a mass of things or persons tightly crowded and packed together so as to prevent individual movement; a block in a confined street, river, or other passage; spec. in logging, an accumulation of logs in a river. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > log-jam
jam1805
log-jam1885
timber jam1888
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > filling to obstruction > jam
jam1805
jam-up1941
1805 Deb. Congr. U.S. 7 Apr. (1852) 1076 Its overflowing [is] occasioned by a jam of timber choking the river.
1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xv. 41 To be locked up in the very heart of the most crowded of all the rooms, by that elegant jam of human kind which constitutes the great charm of your torments.
1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 117 All is bustle, squeeze, row, jabbering, and jam.
1827 H. W. Longfellow in S. Longfellow Life H. W. Longfellow (1891) I. viii. 123 I have been several times to her evening jams; but, as it was Lent, there was no dancing.
1836 Bytown (Ottawa) Gaz. 9 June 4/3 A canoe with nine men..were engaged in taking some timber in a jam at the head of Colton's shoots.
1838 J. T. Hodge in C. T. Jackson 2nd Rep. Geol. Pub. Lands 65 In descending we find it..overgrown for miles with elder bushes, and obstructed by jams of trees.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. ii. 592 There being a jam of carriages, and no getting forward for half the day.
1860 Chambers's Jrnl. 14 241 There was a jam of people.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 3 Here is a close jam, a hard rub, at all seasons.
1863 Sat. Rev. 305 There are two great centres and nuclei of jam, and crush, and obstruction.
1873 J. H. Beadle Undevel. West 719 I saw a ‘jam’ just above the Copperhead Rapids, near Anoka.
1891 C. Roberts Adrift in Amer. 83 The ‘gorge’ or ‘jamb’ was occasioned by some of these large pieces of ice getting piled in such a manner across the river as to form a sort of barrier or dam which backed the water up to a flood level.
1905 Terms Forestry & Logging (Bull. U.S. Dept. Agric., Bureau Forestry, No. 61) 40 Jam, to break a, to start in motion logs which have been jammed.
1910 S. E. White Rules of Game i. xii. 69 ‘Where's the drive, doctor?’ asked the lumberman. ‘This is the jam camp,’ replied the cook. ‘The jam's upstream a mile or so.’
1929 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 482/1 A log jam in the Montreal river, Ontario, Canada.
1955 Times 31 May 4/3 From all around the capital came reports of traffic jams.
1968 R. M. Patterson Finlay's River 32 So they made a risky crossing of the Parsnip [River] on a jam, wondering as they did so whether the ice-bridge over the deepest water would not give way beneath them.
1971 Daily Tel. 22 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 22/1 There would be fewer frayed tempers and thus far fewer accidents—not to mention fewer jams.
b. The tight squeezing of one or more movable parts of a machine into or against another part so that they cannot move; the blocking or stopping of a machine from this cause. Also figurative, an awkward or difficult situation; trouble; = fix n. 1; frequently in in a jam (colloquial, originally U.S.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > [noun] > squeezing of parts
jam1890
the world > action or operation > difficulty > [noun] > difficult state of things > predicament or straits
needfulnessc1350
kankedortc1374
pressc1375
needfultya1382
briguec1400
brikec1400
plightc1400
taking?c1425
partyc1440
distrait1477
brakea1529
hot water1537
strait1544
extremes1547
pickle1562
praemunire1595
lock1598
angustiae1653
difficulty1667
scrape1709
premune1758
hole1760
Queer Street1811
warm water1813
strift1815
fix1816
plisky1818
snapper1818
amplush1827
false position1830
bind1851
jackpot1887
tight1896
squeeze1905
jam1914
1890 Times 6 Dec. 12/4 The cocking tumbler can be slewed round, with a consequent jam, by a contact which a soldier in the hurry of battle would not notice.
1890 Times 6 Dec. 15/4 No jam would ensue, unless the soldier tried to use his rifle both as a single-loader and as a magazine arm at the same time.
1914 San Francisco Call 26 Oct. 7 I knew we'd get in a jam coming here.
1926 Clues Nov. 159/1 I think some one single-duked us, but if so I'll shiv the heel. There'll be plenty of jam.
1927 P. G. Wodehouse Small Bachelor vi. 93 ‘I've gone and got myself into the devil of a jam.’ ‘A position of embarrassment?’ ‘You said it!’
1938 R. Finlayson Brown Man's Burden 81 Henare would give his whole-hearted sympathy and his last shilling to anyone in a bit of a jam.
1950 R. Chandler Simple Art of Murder 19 I'm in a jam. But I'm not going to the cleaners... Half of this money is mine.
1958 New Statesman 12 Apr. 459/3 He knew instinctively that in a jam it was not done to let down one's own side.
c. attributive and in other combinations (mainly in words of the American lumber-trade), as jam-boom n. a boom on a river for jamming or blocking the floating logs sent down the stream for transportation. jam-breaker n. one who unfixes or breaks up a jam of floating logs (Funk, 1893). jam-breaking n. (Funk 1893). jam-nut n. an auxiliary nut screwed down upon the main nut to hold it (Webster, 1864). jam-weld n. Forging ‘a weld in which the heated ends or edges of the parts are square butted against each other and welded’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > transport of logs > string of logs on river
boom1702
boom fence1848
boom-stick1850
sheer-boom1875
string1878
brail1879
jam-boom1879
boom timber1883
boom log1945
1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 1 Oct. From the jam-boom to the head of the sorting works is a distance of seven miles.
2. Jamming (of broadcasts, devices, etc.), or an instance of this. Hence ˈjam-proof adj. proof against jamming. Cf. jam v.1 3c.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > signal > interference
cross-talk1887
static1905
X1906
statics1912
click1914
jam1914
grinder1922
hash1923
mush1924
echo1928
image1928
radio echo1928
harmonic interference1929
second channel1932
society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [adjective] > prevention of interference
anti-static1938
jam-proof1964
1914 P. Vaux Sea-salt & Cordite 129 I don't like this wireless jam!
1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 113 The trouble caused by jams, atmospherics, and howlings.
1964 Ann. Reg. 1963 185 It was said..that the needles in orbit round the earth could provide an inexpensive and jam-proof global communications system.
1972 Sci. Amer. June 17/1 These communications must be jam-proof; the potential attacker cannot be allowed to hope that a communications failure might prevent a retaliatory strike.
3. [This sense may belong to jam n.2 ] Jazz or similar music simultaneously extemporized by a number of performers; a period of playing such music. Frequently attributive, esp. as jam session n. a gathering of musicians to improvise jazz; also transferred and figurative. colloquial.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > a performance > [noun] > musical session
session1927
jam1929
jam session1929
clambake1937
skiffle1946
bash1949
blow1962
open mike1978
1929 Melody Maker Jan. 75/3 There are many variations on this rhythm..which make excellent breaks—or ‘jams’ as they now call them when they are taken by the whole band, the word ‘break’ being used only when it is intended to signify that it is played by one instrument or a section moving together or unaccompanied.
1933 Fortune Aug. 90/1 The jazz musicians' jam sessions where the players vie with one another in hot solos.
1935 Swing Music July 120/2 The best Chicagoans very often had ‘jam’ sessions.
1935 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 71/3 Extremely hot ensemble improvisations are jams.
1937 Amer. Speech 12 46/2 A jam band depends entirely on improvisation, using no written music.
1944 Theology XLVII. 278 This contemporary jam session gives enormous pleasure to the participants. But we [sc. the Church of England] have had little enough success in charming the ear of the nation to the extent of persuading it to come and join the band.
1949 Chicago Daily News 25 Mar. 33/2 One of his ambitions reportedly was to sit in on a jam session with some of our jazz musicians.
1959 R. Gant World in Jug 116 Everyone sat back to hear Mitch give a muted chorus which had them roaring again as we went into a final jam.
1967 ‘La Meri’ Spanish Dancing (ed. 2) vi. 78 Martinez called bulerias ‘the Cachucha of the gitanos’, while Argentinita described it as a ‘flamenco jam-session’.
1969 S. Greenlee Spook who sat by Door xx. 170 He..moved to the stereo. ‘Let's see if I can remember the jams you dig.’
1972 Jazz & Blues Feb. 18/3 Several musicians told me how much they enjoyed the jam sessions.
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Rock Climbing and Mountaineering.
a. An act of wedging a part of the body into a crack as a hold. Cf. hand jam n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > [noun] > actions
glissading1832
rock climb1861
glissade1862
traversea1877
step cutting1884
hand traverse1897
conquest1902
bouldering1920
lay-back1925
soloing1929
hand-jamming1937
safing1937
rappelling1938
leading through1945
pendulum1945
free-climbing1946
laybacking1955
pendule1957
finger jam1959
jumar1966
jam1967
prusiking1968
jumaring1971
free solo1977
redpoint1986
mantel1987
crimping1990
1967 Climber Oct. 404/1 Pinchgrips, sidepulls, difficult jams.
1993 P. Powers Wilderness Mountaineering iii. 62 For cracks too wide for jams with the hand, yet too small to insert one's body, use an entire arm.
2010 S. M. Green Rock Climbing Colorado (ed. 2) iii. 46/1 Work out the right side of the roof..with powerful jams and sidepulls to jugs above and an awkward mantle.
b. A crack used as a hold for part of the body.
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1991 Climbing Feb. 46/1 The crux, occurring near the bottom of the route, involves cutting both hands loose while free-hanging from a single heel/toe jam, then swinging for jams on the opposite side.
1994 J. Long & J. Middendorf Big Walls v. 41 Set your feet on holds or in jams, unclip the aider from the placement and clip it off to your harness.
2002 Accidents N. Amer. Mountaineering (Amer. Alpine Club) 70 The two climbers were about 100 feet apart and the jam was about 40 feet below the belayer.
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jamn.2
/dʒam/, U.S. /dʒæm/ 1.
a. A conserve of fruit prepared by boiling it with sugar to a pulp.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > preserve > [noun] > jam
strawberry jam1523
raspberry jam1719
jam1736
strawberry1890
Murrumbidgee jam1901
1736 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum (ed. 2) Jam of Cherries, Raspberries, &c., (prob. of J'aime, i.e. I love it; as Children used to say in French formerly, when they liked any Thing) a Sweetmeat.
1747 H. Glasse Art of Cookery xvi. 145 To Make Rasberry Giam. Take a Pint of this Curran Jelly, and a Quart of Rasberries, bruise them well together, set them over a slow Fire [etc.].
1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Jam (I know not whence derived), a conserve of fruits boiled with sugar and water.
1781 Mrs. Boscawen in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. III. 25 The trotting of his horse will make my strawberries into jamm before they reach the hand of yr fair niece.
1845 E. Acton Mod. Cookery xxi. 556 To preserve both the true flavour and the colour of fruit in jams and jellies, boil them rapidly until well reduced [etc.].
1862 Mrs. H. Wood Channings II. iv. 41 Scarcely had Cyril begun to enjoy his black currant jam.
b. transferred and figurative. Something good or sweet, esp. with allusion to the use of sweets to hide the disagreeable taste of medicine, or the like; real jam, jam and fritters (slang), a real treat. Colloquial phrases: to have (or like, want) jam on it: to have, etc., something exceedingly pleasant or easy; jam tomorrow: something pleasant promised or expected for the future, esp. something that one never receives; money for jam: see money for jam (also for old rope, etc.) at money n. Phrases 2a(n).
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] > source of pleasure
honeycombOE
sweetness?c1225
dainty1340
sweet1377
delicec1390
lust1390
pleasancec1390
pleasingc1390
well-queema1400
well-queemnessa1400
douceurc1400
delectation?a1425
pleasure1443
pleaserc1447
delectabilitiesa1500
deliciositiesa1500
honeydew1559
delicacy1586
fancy1590
sugar candy1591
regalo1622
happiness1637
deliciousness1651
complacence1667
regalea1677
sweetener1741
bon-bon1856
Bones1869
jam1871
true love1893
nuts1910
barrel of fun (laughs, etc.)1915
G-spot1983
the mind > emotion > pleasure > action of making pleasant > [noun] > that which makes pleasant
sweetener?1614
jam1871
sugar-coating1908
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > hope > promise, ground of hope > [noun] > unrealized
jam tomorrow1871
the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] > source of pleasure > a treat
treat1805
nicey?1870
jam1871
a fair treat1884
pie1884
the world > action or operation > easiness > do or accomplish something easily [verb (intransitive)] > have or want something easy
to have (or like, want) jam on it1919
the mind > emotion > pleasure > [phrase] > (have) something pleasant
to have (or like, want) jam on it1919
1871 ‘L. Carroll’ Through Looking-glass v. 94 The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday—but never jam to-day.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 268 Real jam, a sporting phrase, meaning anything exceptionally good.
1882 ‘F. Anstey’ Vice Versâ xiv Ah!.. I thought you wouldn't find it all jam!
1885 Punch 3 Jan. 4/1 Without Real Jam—cash and kisses—this world is a bitterish pill.
1896 Pall Mall Gaz. 6 Jan. 4/1 Its [a sermon's] repetition in the guise of a play could only be justified if the jam were nice enough to make us forget the powder.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 295 Exposing yourself as a pot shot to ambushed natives would be jam and fritters to Mr. MacTaggart.
1919 Athenæum 8 Aug. 727/2 ‘Having jam on it’ (i.e., something nice and easy, a ‘cushy’ job).
1925 E. Fraser & J. Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 130 ‘You want jam on it’, i.e., You expect too much.
1936 ‘J. Curtis’ Gilt Kid 23 You want jam on it, you do.
1939 A. Huxley After Many a Summer ii. iii. 201 The entire capital outlay had already been amortized, so that everything from now on would be pure jam.
1946 J. Irving Royal Navalese 99 The ironical suggestion made to a sailor already ‘moaning’ about his job—‘Do you want jam on it?’
1951 ‘J. Wyndham’ Day of Triffids xii. 225 Just put the Americans into the jam-tomorrow-pie-in-the-sky department awhile.
1962 Listener 29 Nov. 925/1 Dr Leavis sees C. P. Snow as a gross materialist concerned only with jam tomorrow.
1970 Times 21 Feb. 6/8 Freedman says he can break even during the 10 weeks, with the jam to follow in the summer.
1972 Daily Tel. 30 Mar. 22/6 Ultramar has ever been the ‘jam tomorrow’ stock par excellence, with not a penny paid out in dividends. Instead, shareholders get scrip issues.
1973 G. Mitchell Murder of Busy Lizzie i. 14 ‘I think Greece might be a very good idea—later on.’ ‘Never jam today!’ muttered Margaret.
1974 O. Manning Rain Forest i. vi. 87 Hugh..was free to leave at six... Pedley..said: ‘You've got jam on it: walking home in the sunset.’
2. Affected manners; self-importance; frequently in to lay (or put) on jam. Australian slang.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun]
affectation1548
affection1570
phantastry1656
stilt1735
fal-lal1775
coxcombality1785
meemaw1790
posture-making1797
attitudinarianism1803
attitudinizing1812
piminy1819
stiltishness1824
niminy-piminyism1840
gyvera1866
notion1866
attitudinization1871
effectism1871
jam1882
chichi1908
poncing1969
pseudery1972
1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 5/1 Jam (putting on), assuming fast airs of importance.
1901 M. Franklin My Brilliant Career xxvi. 219 People who knew how to conduct themselves properly, and who paid one every attention without a bit of fear of being twitted with ‘laying the jam on’.
1924 D. H. Lawrence & M. L. Skinner Boy in Bush 46 Don't y' get sidey..puttin' on jam an' suchlike.
1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. vi. 119 Terms like..jam and guiver, connoting ‘side’ or affectation.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
jam-boiler n.
jam-factory n.
jam-maker n.
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1896 Daily News 19 Dec. 8/4 A firm of jam makers were ready to give 24,000l. at once for the site.
jam-making n.
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1908 G. Jekyll Children & Gardens ii. 12 In the kitchen the children..learn the elements of even more serious cookery, such as jam making.
1968 P. Jennings Living Village 122 Most wives buy cakes and preserves, a few still do their own baking and jam-making.
jam-pot n.
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1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 5 Sept. 3/1 His stand-up collar was of the kind which the gilded youth of London describe as a jam-pot.
1892 Daily News 16 Sept. 3/3 The new autumn bonnets have the small, high crowns known as ‘jam-pot’.
jam-pudding n.
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1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond (1849) ix. 100 My dear wife..vowed she would cook all the best dishes herself (especially jam pudding, of which..I am very fond).
jam-puff n.
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1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 30 Mar. Spending their abundant green-backs..in jam-puffs— huge triangular cocked hats of pastry.
jam-tart n.
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1883 A. Thomas Mod. Housewife 118 A kind of jam custard and pastry-pudding peculiar to the district, and known as ‘Bakewell Pudding’.
jam-tin n.
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1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xii. 161 Gets 'is quid a week..solderin' jam-tins.
1956 Coast to Coast 1955–6 59 He had one of the jam-tins in his hand.
b.
jam-like adj.
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1899 Westm. Gaz. 4 Apr. 1/3 His jam-like proposal will not make any the more palatable the powder of the Bill, which he is so anxious to see administered.
C2.
jam-butty n. (also jam-buttie) a butty (butty n.2) spread with jam.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > bread with spread or filling > [noun] > bread with butter, jam, or other spread
bread and butter1533
butterham1713
butter toast1757
tartine1804
butty1827
punk and plaster1891
thunder and lightning1905
cinnamon toast1927
jam-butty1927
1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 121 Buttie, general in North for a piece of bread and butter (together with jam-buttie).
1965 Oxf. Mail 17 Nov. 11/5 The biggest jam butty in the world.
1970 Times 29 Jan. 9/8 You could have knocked us all down with a jam buttie when she [sc. Gracie Fields] first took up with those foreigners.
1972 Observer 16 Jan. (Colour Suppl.) 17/4 I am sluggish and sapped of energy and living on an occasional ‘jam butty’.
jam jar n. (a) a jar designed for holding jam; (b) rhyming slang for ‘motor car’ (see also quot. 1943).
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the world > food and drink > food > container for food > [noun] > jam or preserving jar
preserving jar1823
preserve jar1848
Mason jar1885
jam jar1895
Kilner jar1930
sealer1932
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun]
buggy1888
motor vehicle1890
motor carriage1894
autocar1895
jam jar1895
motor car1895
car1896
traction1896
motor1899
bubble1901
machine1901
Lizzie1913
buzz-wagon1914
road car1914
short1914
scooter1917
buzz-box1920
ride1930
drag1935
bus1939
wagon1955
wheels1959
sheen1968
low rider1974
scoot1977
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > military vehicles > [noun] > armed or armoured > armoured car
armoured car?1867
jam jar1895
scout car1933
1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 785 [Cut glass] Jam Jar.
1902 M. Barnes-Grundy Thames Camp iv. 67 Jane went on with her jam-jar trap [for wasps].
1934 P. Allingham Cheapjack xiii. 163 Have you got a jam-jar—a car?
1943 C. H. Ward-Jackson It's a Piece of Cake 38 Jam jars, armoured cars.
1962 R. Cook Crust on its Uppers i. 23 Parking this dreadful great orange-and-cream jamjar..slap under a no-parking sign.
1967 N. Freeling Strike Out 81 A few brushes in a jam-jar.
Derivatives
ˈjamless adj. without jam.
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1894 Cornhill Mag. May 499 She thrives..on jamless bread and butter.
Draft additions 1993
jam-rag n. †(a) dialect something overcooked (obsolete); †(b) dialect (plural) rags, tatters; figurative, small pieces (obsolete); (c) slang a sanitary towel (cf. rag n.2).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun] > state of being cooked > overcooked substance
jam-rag1869
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning or cleanliness of the person > [noun] > sanitary protection > sanitary towel
rag1606
jam-rag1869
napkin1873
pad1881
sanitary towel1881
towel1896
sanitary napkin1917
sanitary pad1926
bloodclaat1956
bumboclaat1967
the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > part of whole > [noun] > a separate part > a fragment > fragments > small
fritters1686
smithereens1795
crunches1839
smithers1845
shivereens1855
jam-rag1869
1869 J. P. Morris Gloss. Words & Phrases Furness 50 Jam-rags, anything over cooked.
1878 E. Waugh Hermit Cobbler viii. 52 Th' bakehouse wur blawn to jam-rags.
a1966 M. Bell Coll. Poems (1967) iii. 92 Strides over the moors A recalcitrant Amazon—Emily Brontë With the jam-rags on.
1992 Viz June–July (verso rear cover) The new Vispre Shadow jam rag is designed to suit your lifestyle, with a wrap-a-round gusset flap to keep the blood off your knicker elastic.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
jamn.3
/dʒɑːm/, U.S. /dʒɑm/ ? Obsolete.
A kind of dress or frock for children.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > types of > for specific people > other
slip1690
jam1793
robe1799
hostess dress1951
1793 W. Hodges Trav. India 3 This [long muslin] dress is in India usually worn both by Hindoos and Mahomedan and is called Jammah; whence the dress well known in England, and worn by children is usually called a jam.
1821 R. Southey in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1849) I. 44 I had a fantastic costume of nankeen..trimmed with green fringe; it was called a vest and tunic, or a jam.
1879 L. Potter Lancs. Mem. 50 A little boy's dress she always called a ‘Jam’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
Jamn.4
/dʒɑːm/, U.S. /dʒɑm/ A hereditary title of certain princes and noblemen in Sind, Kutch, and Saurashtra.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > [noun] > Indian or Asian ruler
raja1555
hakim1585
naik1588
Jam1727
khan1815
shugo1893
Agong1976
society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > titles applied to royalty > for a prince > for foreign prince
Jam1727
tunku1879
1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xi. 115 The Jams to the Eastward, who being Borderers, are much given to Thieving, and they rob all whom they are able to master.
1843 Sir C. Napier Let. in G. Smith Life J. Wilson (1878) 440 Jam.—You have received the money of the British for taking charge of the dawk.
1849 E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 12 A small sea-port belonging to the Jám of Nowanaggar.
1899 Daily News 26 July 3/2 The late Jam [of Nowanagger] was permitted by the Government of India to disinherit his son by a Mohammedan lady,..he selected Kumar Ranjitsinghji as his son by adoption.
1913 A. G. Gardiner Pillars of Society 293 And so, ‘hats off’ to the Jam Sahib—the prince of a little State, but the king of a great game.
1958 L. F. R. Williams Black Hills 70 Certain chiefs..whose original early title of Jam is by tradition associated with the mighty Iranian monarch Jamshed.
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jamadj.2
/dʒam/, U.S. /dʒæm/ U.S. slang. Now historical.
Among homosexual people (esp. men): designating a heterosexual person (esp. a man).
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > heterosexuality > [adjective] > heterosexual
heterosex1913
normal1914
heterosexual1927
jam1930
hetero1933
het1939
straight1941
non-homosexual1942
hetero1949
1930 W. Rollins Obelisk v. 251 ‘Hands off Cutie here; he's jam—ain't he?’ she added, turning to Bates. Bates nodded. ‘Dearie,’ said Violet, ‘there ain't a cherry what grows what's pure jam. They may be hard to pluck, but they can be had!’
1951 ‘D. W. Cory’ Homosexual in Amer. ix. 110 In San Francisco,..the gay circles refer to other people as jam. ‘She's gay, but her husband's jam,’ a person will say.
2007 S. Terkel & S. Lewis Touch & Go viii. 86 They knew I was hetero and the word they used for me was ‘jam’. It's not a term used today.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
jamv.1
/dʒam/, U.S. /dʒæm/ 1. figurative.1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia VI. xx. i. 16 No end to his contrivances..especially when you have him jammed into a corner.
a. transitive. To press or squeeze (an object) tightly between two converging bodies or surfaces; to wedge or fix immovably in an opening, either by forcing the object in, or by the narrowing or closing in of the sides.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > stuff or cram
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farcec1405
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threstc1540
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prag1567
prop1568
referse1580
thwack1582
ram1590
pang1637
farcinate1638
stivea1639
thrack1655
to craw outa1658
trig1660
steeve1669
stow1710
jam1719
squab1819
farcy1830
cram-jam1880
jam-pack1936
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > make fast [verb (transitive)] > fasten or fix > between two bodies or surfaces
wedge1513
jam1719
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 226 The Ship..stuck fast, jaum'd in between two Rocks.
1753 G. Washington Jrnl. in Writings (1889) I. 38 We were jammed in the Ice, in such a Manner that we expected every Moment our Raft to sink, and ourselves to perish.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Jamming A cask, box, &c. is..said to be jammed, when it is..wedged in between weighty bodies, so as not to be dislodged without..difficulty.
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 153 The blocks are..jambed up..with wedges in a clave.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian ii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 61 Wilson..jammed himself so fast, that he was unable to draw his body back again.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 14 The rammer is jammed in the gun.
b. To make fast by tightening.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > make fast [verb (transitive)] > tighten (bands, cords, knots, nuts)
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restrainc1425
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jam1726
tighten1727
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 111 When the Shark had..got his Head through the Noose, to hale, and thereby jam the running knot taut about him.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 111 I jamm'd the Snare by a sudden Jirk of the Rope, and haled him up.
1775 N. D. Falck Philos. Diss. Diving Vessel 49 Run a jewel down, and jam all the sweeps amidships.
c. To block or fill up (a passage or avenue) by crowding or crushing into it.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > close or shut [verb (transitive)] > close by obstruction or block up
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forstop?c1225
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accloy1422
ferma1522
clam1527
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impediment1610
stifle1631
foul1642
obstipate1656
obturate1657
choke1669
blockade1696
to flop up1838
jama1865
to ball up1884
gunge1976
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > to obstruction
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encumberc1400
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pester1548
accumberc1571
clog1586
to take up1587
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jama1865
a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xv. 171 Heavy box after heavy box jammed up the passage.
1868 Ld. Tennyson Lucretius 169 As crowds that in an hour Of civic tumult jam the doors, and bear The keepers down.
d. To bruise or crush by pressure.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > pressing, pressure, or squeezing > press or squeeze [verb (transitive)] > crush
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to-bruisec1000
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to-gnidea1300
defoulc1300
to-crushc1300
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jam1832
roll1886
1832 F. Marryat Newton Forster I. xiii. 177 His hand was..severely jammed by the heel of a topmast.
a1855 W. T. Spurdens Forby's Vocab. E. Anglia (1858) III. 25 Jamm, to bruise by compression. ‘He jamm'd his finger in the door.’
1880 Times 17 Dec. 5/6 The mate got his hand jammed, and received some other slight injuries.
1882 J. B. Baker Hist. Scarborough 502 Two men had each a leg jammed off.
e. English regional and U.S. regional. To press hard or make firm by treading, as land is trodden hard by cattle.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [verb (transitive)] > make firm
fastena1398
firmify1578
firm1579
confirm1663
jam1787
1787 W. Marshall Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Norfolk II. 382 Jam, to render firm by treading; as cattle do land they are foddered on.
1890 in Cent. Dict. as U.S. dial.
2. intransitive. To become fixed, wedged, or held immovably; to stick fast.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > cease to move or become motionless > be arrested or intercepted in progress
steek?a1400
sticka1450
lodge1611
intercept1612
catch1620
clog1633
jam1706
rake1725
fasten1744
set1756
hitch1897
seize1917
1706 S. Sewall Diary 6 Mar. (1973) I. 542 The Ice jam'd and made a great Damm.
1836 M. Scott Cruise of Midge xix. 340 The sumpter-mule..came down, rattling past us like a whirlwind, until she jammed between the stems of two of the cocoa-nut trees.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 180 The cable jammed on the windlass.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) i. 25 Just above McCauslin's, there is a rocky rapid, where logs jam in the spring.
3.
a. transitive. To cause the fixing or wedging of (some movable part of a machine) so that it cannot work; to render (a machine, gun, etc.) unworkable, by such wedging, sticking, or displacement.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > render immobile [verb (transitive)] > stop the movement of > by blocking or wedging
coin1580
cog1635
stick1635
quoin1637
scotch1642
sufflaminate1656
choke1712
chock1726
jam1851
sprag1878
snibble1880
cotch1925
1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. II. 362 Immediately after the first shock..the screw was jammed or locked.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 24 Jan. 1/2 The term ‘jammed’..when used in connection with a machine gun means that the gun ceased to operate from some disarrangement of the parts.
1890 Times 6 Dec. 12/4 When the extractor grips a refractory cartridge the gun is jammed.
1891 Ld. Herschell in Law Times Rep. 65 593/1 Her propeller got foul of a rope, so that the shaft was jammed, and the engines could not be worked.
b. intransitive. Of a machine, gun, etc.: To become unworkable through the wedging, sticking, or displacement of some movable part.
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the world > movement > absence of movement > [verb (intransitive)] > cease to move or become motionless > be arrested or intercepted in progress > by blocking or wedging
wedge1726
jam1885
scotch1898
society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > render mechanical [verb (intransitive)] > of machine: operate > cease to operate
jam1885
to have had it1942
to shut down1945
society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > discharge firearms [verb (intransitive)] > of gun: become unworkable
jam1885
1885 Manch. Examiner 25 Mar. 6/1 From five to twenty-five per cent of the rifles would jam after firing one or two rounds.
1889 Spectator 21 Sept. If the guns jam, the swords break, and the bayonets curl up, we cannot say that there is necessarily safety in the multitude of stores.
1892 Law Times Rep. 67 251/2 [There can be no] doubt that this machinery did jam, and that it was the jamming which caused the collision.
c. transitive. To cause interference with (radio or radar signals) so as to render them unintelligible or useless, esp. deliberately; to prevent reception of (a transmitter or station) by such means. Also transferred.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > communicate by radio [verb (transitive)] > interfere with
hog1914
jam1914
heterodyne1923
1914 P. Vaux Sea-salt & Cordite 46 Communications became regularly jammed.
1914 P. Vaux Sea-salt & Cordite 47 We'll stop this jamming, wherever it's coming from.
1914 P. Vaux Sea-salt & Cordite 46 Communications became irregularly jammed.
1914 Wireless World July 246/1 Electricity in our language..is not ‘juice’; neither is radio interference ‘jamming’.
1920 Discovery Apr. 116/2 When the reception of a message is thus interfered with by other messages being sent at the same time, the message is said to be ‘jammed’.
1920 Discovery Apr. 116/2 The jamming of a message may also be caused by stray ether disturbances in the atmosphere itself.
1920 Telegraph & Telephone Jrnl. 6 165/1 As the number of aeroplanes multiplied ‘jambing’—the great drawback of wireless—became more acute. ‘Jambing’..refers to the general mix up which results from the reception of two or more sets of signals at once in the same instrument.
1926 E. F. Spanner Naviators x. 124 The Admiral had answered the Japanese C.-in-C. by sending out jamming signals immediately the British scout had been driven down.
1939 War Illustr. 7 Oct. 126/2 Gramophone records of pledges given by Hitler in his public speeches have been broadcast from France—and jammed by the Germans!
1947 Amer. Speech 22 154/1 Allied bombers jammed (rendered ineffective) German radar equipment by dropping quantities of metal foil when over enemy targets.
1947 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 51 432/2 We developed a jamming screen for the purpose of blinding the enemy's early warning system and so preventing him from obtaining information of our approach.
1955 Times 18 Aug. 9/2 In 1933 the Vienna transmitters were put on to jam Nazi attacks on the Dolfuss Government from the Munich transmitters. Between 1934 and the outbreak of the war the device was copied wholesale.
1959 Ann. Reg. 1958 235 Jamming of Western broadcasts continued.
1970 Daily Tel. 16 Apr. 1 The Post Office is jamming broadcasts by the pirate radio ship North Sea International.
1971 Sci. Amer. June 132/2 Any sonar can be jammed, and clever moving jammers would pretty surely beat the art of beam shaping.
1971 New Scientist 2 Sept. 536/3 In 1942 they investigated the severe jamming of army radar stations, and concluded that radio waves of amazing intensity are emitted by the Sun.
4. transitive. To press, squeeze, or crowd (a number of objects) together in a compact mass; to pack with force or vigour; to force together.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > crowd together
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pack1545
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close1566
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crowd1612
serry1639
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stuff1728
pig1745
jam1771
condensate1830
wad1850
sardine1895
1771 W. Wales in Philos. Trans. 1770 (Royal Soc.) 60 112 [The ice] consisted of large pieces close jambed together.
1871 L. Stephen Playground of Europe (1894) v. 121 The masses..were crumbled and jammed together so as to form a road.
1885 Manch. Examiner 14 Feb. 5/4 To jam them together in one or two rooms like sheep in a fold.
1886 R. C. Leslie Sea-painter's Log x. 195 In these pockets nearly all the soles of a catch are found jambed together.
5. figurative.1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 19 May (1946) 68 I have no turn for thes[e] committees, and yet I get always jamd into them.1876 G. Meredith Beauchamp's Career III. xii. 214 He wants to jam the business of two or three centuries into a life-time.
a. To thrust, ram, or force violently into a confined space.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly > cram or stuff in
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thrum1603
to cramp in1605
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impack1611
screw1635
infarciate1657
stodge1674
choke1747
bodkin1793
jam1793
bodkinize1833
pump1899
shoehorn1927
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §53 A part of a chain..was jammed in so fast..that it remained so.
1841 L. Hunt Seer (1864) 84 He has a small foot..and he would squeeze, jam, and damn it into a thimble.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 24 Everything was jammed into the tightest cases.
1855 F. Chamier My Trav. I. i. 12 All these..useless articles were jammed into a bag.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. vi. 109 Ruined porticoes and columns..jammed in confusedly among the dwellings of Christians.
1877 R. H. Roberts Harry Holbrooke of Holbrooke Hall ii. 24 Hats are jammed tightly on the head.
b. To thrust, push, dash, or drive (anything) violently or firmly against something, or in some direction, as down, in.
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the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > push > with force or violence
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threstc1300
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chop1562
tilt1582
jam1836
swag1958
1836 Boston (Lincs.) Herald 12 Apr. 1/6 He jammed her against the bannisters.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. ii. 23 [He] passed close under the bows..the steersman having jammed his helm hard down.
1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Jaum, to strike another's head against any hard object, such as a wall.
1887 T. N. Page In Ole Virginia (1893) 158 Polly jambed the door back, and returned to his side.
c. figurative. ‘To push (a bill or measure) through the regular routine of a legislative body by the brute force of a majority controlled by “the machine”, without proper consideration or discussion’ (Cent. Dict. Suppl.). U.S.
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1901 N.Y. Com. Advertiser 11 Apr.
1926 Harper's Mag. Feb. 342/2 The bills hurriedly jammed through our legislative tribunals each year.
d. To apply or put (a brake) on violently.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > drive a motor vehicle > apply brakes
jam1925
to slam on the brakes1958
1925 Morris Owner's Man. 11 Jambing on the brakes at the last moment.
6. intransitive. To play in a ‘jam’ or ‘jam session’ (see jam n.1 3); to extemporize. Also transitive, to improvise (a tune, etc.). colloquial (originally U.S.).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform music [verb (intransitive)] > improvise or extemporize
extemporize1775
improvise1788
impromptu1802
fantasy1840
fake1895
ad-lib1910
busk1934
jam1935
noodle1937
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > improvise
improvisoa1768
vamp1789
improvise1858
mess1926
busk1934
rhyme1939
jam1955
1935 Stage Sept. 46/2 Jam, to improvise hot music, usually in groups.
1936 Delineator Nov. 11/2 He just comes on in here once in a while because he likes to jam.
1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) xi. 203 Pierre Braslavsky could sit in anywhere old-school jazzmen are jamming.
1955 L. Feather Encycl. Jazz 132 He was seen in the Norman Granz film, Jamming the Blues.
1958 R. Horricks in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz ix. 115 This became an important factor in Kansas City jamming.
1958 R. Horricks in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz ix. 117 The legendary Art Tatum loved to jam with the resident jazz musicians.
1960 Melody Maker 31 Dec. 5/3 They just wanted me to jam a blues for the fourth number.
1971 It 2 June 19/1 They've been jamming together at a studio in Greenwich Village.
Derivatives
jammed adj. /dʒæmd/ squeezed, blocked up.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to obstruction
foul1579
congested1862
jammed1887
clogged1889
1887 W. Crane in Pall Mall Gaz. 16 Nov. 2/2 The mounted men charging into this jammed crowd every now and then.
ˈjammedness n. jammed condition.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > fullness > to obstruction
jammedness1887
1887 A. A. Wright in Boston Acad. June 5 Browning's conciseness is more than conciseness; it is jammedness.
ˈjamming n. and adj. In first quot. the form and meaning are uncertain.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > [noun] > making fast or securing > in position > between two bodies or surfaces
jamming1769
wedging1893
1617 J. Taylor Three Weekes Obseruations C iv The chaine was shorter then the halter, by reason whereof hee was not strangled, but by the gamming of the chaine which could not slip close to his necke he hanged in great torments.]
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Jamming, the act of inclosing any object between two bodies, so as to render it immoveable.
1923 Harmsworth's Wireless Encycl. II. 1226/1 Cutting out the local jamming of a near transmitting station by the careful use of loose coupling.
1930 B.B.C. Year-bk. 444/1 Jamming, interference with wanted wireless signals due to other wireless transmitters.
Draft additions June 2015
Rock Climbing and Mountaineering.
a. intransitive. To climb by wedging a part of the body into a crack as a hold. With up, over, etc. Cf. hand jam v. 1.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > mountaineer or climb [verb (intransitive)] > climbing techniques
glissade1837
sidle1867
traverse1897
abseil1908
to back up1909
bridge1909
to rope down1935
jam1950
rappel1950
prusik1959
solo1964
free-climb1968
hand jam1968
jumar1969
layback1972
pendule1973
top-rope1974
crimp1989
free solo1992
1950 J. H. B. Bell Progress Mountaineering vi. 63 In chimneys and cracks support could be obtained by friction and jamming against the retaining walls.
1971 D. Whillans & A. Ormerod Don Whillans xv. 152 Jamming up the chimney was a struggle.
1999 S. M. Green Rock Climbing Arizona 348 Jam over a small roof via a flared crack in a right-facing corner.
2013 B. Gaines Best Climbs Tahquitz & Suicide Rocks 98 Climb up a clean crack in a smooth right facing corner, then under a right-leaning overhanging flake until you can jam up through a break in the overhang to a 2-bolt belay.
b. transitive. To wedge a part of the body into (a crack) as a hold. Cf. hand jam v. 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > mountaineering or climbing > mountaineer or climb [verb (transitive)] > climbing techniques
traverse1813
rope1855
bridge1909
chimney1940
solo1962
free-climb1968
jam1968
top-rope1974
free solo1977
hand jam1982
redpoint1986
crimp1991
1968 N. Dodge Climber's Guide Oregon vi. 122 Begin the climb in the narrow chimney..tunnel under the chockstones, then jam a crack.
1989 J. F. Gregory Rock Sport ii. 24 Where are you going to stand? This has more to do with how you can jam a crack than anything you do with your hands.
2006 S. M. Green Rock Climbing Europe xiv. 359/1 Jam a crack, then face climb..to a ledge with belay bolts.
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jamv.2
/dʒam/, U.S. /dʒæm/ colloquial.
1. To spread with jam.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > garnishing > garnish [verb (transitive)] > spread with jam or marmalade
jam1852
marmalade1967
1852 G. C. Mundy Our Antipodes II. vi. 153 The slices of bread looked as if they had been first jammed and then well scraped.
2. transitive. To make into jam.
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preserving or pickling > pickle or preserve [verb (transitive)] > preserve with sugar > make jam or jelly
quiddany1647
jam1854
1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 256 The cranberries,..destined to be jammed.
Derivatives
jammed adj.2
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1905 Daily Chron. 2 Dec. 4/4 Apples, pears, plums, berries, &c. (fresh or dried, or jammed, or tinned, or bottled).
ˈjamming n.2
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1949 Hansard Commons 16 May 12 ‘Jamming sugar’ is a term very frequently used by housewives.
1969 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 21 Sept. 8/1 In many kitchens there is jamming, jelly and pickle making, perking.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
jamadv.adj.1
/dʒam/, U.S. /dʒæm/ Originally U.S.
A. adv.
1. Closely; in close contact or with firm pressure. Often with up (against).
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [adverb] > contiguously > into close contact or close against
toc1200
homea1555
chock1768
chock-a-block1824
jam1825
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan II. 52 He had been sitting, for two or three hours,..‘jam up’ in a back seat.
1842 Amer. Pioneer 1 184 The next moment the sloop ran jamb against it.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. iv. 49 ‘It'll stand, if it only keeps jam up agin de wall!’ said Mose.
1932 Kansas City (Missouri) Star 24 May 18 His Chevrolet..[ran] jam up against a house.
2. jam up: thoroughly, perfectly, excellently; right up to; so jam-full adj.: packed full, completely filled; jam-packed adj.: tightly packed; closely crowded or squeezed together; hence (as a back-formation) jam-pack v. trans., to pack tightly, fill.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adverb]
fairlyOE
goodlyc1275
finec1330
properlyc1390
daintily?a1400
thrivinglya1400
goodlily?1457
excellent1483
excellently1527
excellently1529
curiously1548
jollilyc1563
admirably1570
beautifully1570
singularly1576
bravelyc1600
famouslya1616
manlya1616
primely1622
prime1648
eximiously1650
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egregiously1693
purely1695
trimmingly1719
toppinglya1739
surprisingly1749
capitally1750
brawly1796
jellily18..
stammingly1814
divinely1822
stunningly1823
rippingly1828
jam up1835
out of sight1835
first-rately1843
first rate1844
like a charm1845
stunning1851
marvellously1859
magnificently1868
first class1871
splendidly1883
sterlingly1883
tip-top1888
like one o'clock1901
deevily1905
goodo1907
dandy1908
bonzer1914
great1916
juicily1916
corkingly1917
champion1925
unbeatably1928
snodger1946
beaut1953
smashingly1956
groovily1970
awesome1984
the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > completely or perfectly
to (or unto) perfectiona1425
to the letter?1495
to point1590
to the (also a) nail?1611
to a shaving1804
jam up1835
to the moment1845
to a (fine) point1861
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > full to the brim
brerd-fullc1000
bret-fullc1200
staff-fulla1400
chock-fullc1440
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top-full1553
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teemful1673
brimming1697
stock-full1782
throat-fulla1800
jam-full1835
cram-full1837
stodge-full1847
chockc1850
top-filled1860
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [adjective] > full > stuffed or crammed
well-stuffed?1483
well-crammed1567
pang1568
stuffed1598
refert1642
referted1657
charged (also crammed, primed, etc.) to the muzzle1782
packed1795
chock-a-block1822
pang-full1825
pack-full1858
ram-jam full1860
jam-packed1925
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > stuff or cram
cramc1000
pitchc1300
thrustc1380
purra1398
stopc1400
farcec1405
stuffc1440
line?1521
enfarce1531
threstc1540
pack1567
prag1567
prop1568
referse1580
thwack1582
ram1590
pang1637
farcinate1638
stivea1639
thrack1655
to craw outa1658
trig1660
steeve1669
stow1710
jam1719
squab1819
farcy1830
cram-jam1880
jam-pack1936
1835 D. Crockett Acct. Col. Crockett's Tour 192 [Andrew Jackson] went jam up for war; but the cabinet got him down to half heat.
1846 Congress. Globe 22 May 852 Their notion is that we go jam up to 54° 40′, and the Russians come jam down to the same.
1858 S. A. Hammett Piney Woods Tavern xiv. 146 The regular stage was jam full, and there was an extra put on, and that was jam full, and a leetle more.
1866 C. H. Smith Bill Arp, so Called 61 Linton played his part of the programme jam up.
1874 E. Eggleston Circuit Rider xvi. 142 How far you rid her to day..? Jam up fifty miles, and over tough roads.
1893 G. B. Shaw Let. 27 Apr. (1965) I. 392 Friday & Saturday are jam full.
1921 R. Hichens Spirit of Time xii ‘Is your passenger list full?’ ‘Jam full, sir.’
1925 R. Lardner in Liberty 28 Mar. 5/1 This place is jam-packed Saturdays, from four o'clock on.
1928 P. G. Wodehouse Money for Nothing v. 96 How can you be poor, when that gallery place you showed us round yesterday is jam full of pictures worth a fortune an inch?
1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xxi. 214 Eventually we were jampacked in, with the ladies alternately sitting on the Poet's knees.
1938 State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 5 May 14 The foursome finally got a chance to try the floor of the ballroom before the crowd, which later jampacked it, got there.
1947 J. Bertram Shadow of War 262 It was jam-packed with neglected cargo.
1958 Archit. Rev. 124 383 In surprising and welcome contrast to the jam-packed streets.
1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon xiii. 322 They passed the rock boxes through to me, and I handled them as if they were absolutely jampacked with rare jewels.
B. adj.1
Usually jam-up. Excellent, perfect; thorough. colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective]
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posh1914
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pie on1916
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Rolls-Royce1922
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wizard1922
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ripe1923
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mellow1936
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tough1937
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readyc1938
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grouse1941
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pipperoo1945
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fabby1971
schmick1972
butt-kicking1973
ripper1973
Tiffany1973
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rad1976
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1832 Boston Transcript 6 Aug. 1/1 Do you like jam spruce beer, Miss?
1839 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 5) xxix. 270 I must have every thing jam.
1839 F. Trollope Domest. Manners Amer. (ed. 5) xxix. 273 That's a jam gal.
1841 Southern Literary Messenger 7 54/2 Introduced him to the ‘jam-up little company’ in his command.
1853 Daily Morning Herald (St. Louis) 9 May Wiggins's tavern was a jam-up house of amusement.
1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature II. ix. 261 In Paradise..connubial bliss, I allot was rael [sic] jam up.
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues i. 4 I got my first chance to play in a real man-size band, with jam-up instruments.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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