gamb
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
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- 12
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- 4
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Definition of gamb
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
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noun
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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.”
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(slang)A person's leg; gam.
“[…] but Heavens above what a pair of gambs! Stems. What the vulgar call legs.”
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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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