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  • But since I'm heading out to Montana before long, I decided to ask about getting it fixed, with an asterisk about how if it were a lot of money, I'd rather just keep jambing my fingers there.

    Grading Jail Bardiac 2009

  • But since I'm heading out to Montana before long, I decided to ask about getting it fixed, with an asterisk about how if it were a lot of money, I'd rather just keep jambing my fingers there.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Bardiac 2009

  • Or I'd be jambing boards against the face of an advancing glacier.

    Bound but not Gagged Don Lewis 2008

  • Car loads of photographers are jambing the roads to Fort Bend-over Texas!

    Think Progress » Warrant issued 2005

  • This is very pleasant, but I much prefer the cabin of Silver Cloud, with you, my dear friends, to all this hustling, cramming, and jambing.

    Doctor Jones' Picnic

  • In this event the opponent endeavours to render the communications undecipherable to one and all by what is known as "jambing."

    Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

  • Mr W. Allen, M.P., of Gateshead, proposed to use celluloid for cartridge cases, and thus to lighten ammunition, and prevent jambing, for the case will be resolved into gases along with the powder.

    Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise

  • Close in, the motion was less owing to the jambing up of the ice somewhere farther west.

    The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 Apsley Cherry-Garrard 1922

  • As they neared the Switzer place they saw a young man standing on the little pier which jutted out into the stream with a pike-pole in his hand, keeping the logs from jambing at the turn.

    The Major Ralph Connor 1898

  • At nine o'clock the train was announced, and after a good deal of jambing and pushing about, we were again on the way to Paris.

    Three Years in Europe; or, Places I have Seen and People I have Met. 1852

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