gamb

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
9
Words With Friends
12
Letters
4
Pronunciation
/ɡamb/
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/ɡamb/ · /ɡæmb/

Definition of gamb

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  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.”
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noun

  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. (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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