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Examples
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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
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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.
Archive 2009-05-01 Bardiac 2009
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Or I'd be jambing boards against the face of an advancing glacier.
Bound but not Gagged Don Lewis 2008
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Car loads of photographers are jambing the roads to Fort Bend-over Texas!
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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