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Sidepiece

Sidepiece \Side"piece`\, n. (Joinery) The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.

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sidepiece

n. 1 a part forming a side of something 2 The jamb, or cheek, of an opening in a wall, as of door or window.

Usage examples of "sidepiece".

Lwaxana adjusted her elaborate headpiece, a large affair with exotically upswept sidepieces of gleaming black metal.

It had rotted away from the screws that held it to the sidepieces near the bow and cracked right in two midway between that point of attachment and the first crosspiece, opening downward like a double trapdoor.

At Florence Green's here-and-now table there is a poet named Onward Christian or something whose spectacles have wide silver sidepieces rather than the dull brown horn sidepieces of true poets and weightlifters, and whose poems invariably begin: "Through all my clangorous hours.