A gun, so called from its fanciful resemblance to a "betterave" or jambon The botanical name of the root is melochia "What would you do to me, brigand? Give me fifty blows of a matraque, as your officer gave you last week for stealing his jambon?" - Ouida: Under Two Flays, chap xvi Jambuscha [Jam-bus-cah ] Adam's preceptor, according to the pre-Adamites Sometimes called Boan, and sometime Zagtith
It is the French word for "ham" which consists of the hind leg of the pig, separated from the carcass at about the second joint of the verebrae