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/ɡamb/ · noun
(heraldry) 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.
[…] but Heavens above what a pair of gambs! Stems. What the vulgar call legs.
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Gamb means (heraldry) The leg or shank, typically of an animal, especially of a lion, on a coat of arms, crest, etc..
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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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