gammon

[gamĀ·mon]

Meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)

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The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.

Noun
hind portion of a side of bacon

Noun
meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)


n.
The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.

v. t.
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

n.
Backgammon.

n.
An imposition or hoax; humbug.

v. t.
To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.

v. t.
To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.

v. t.
To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.


Gammon

Gam"mon , n. [OF. gambon, F. jambon, fr. OF. gambe leg, F. jambe. See Gambol, n., and cf. Ham.] The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.

Gammon

Gam"mon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gameed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Gameing.] To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

Gammon

Gam"mon, n. [See 2d Game.] 1. Backgammon. 2. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.]

Gammon

Gam"mon, v. t. 1. To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person. 2. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] Hood.

Gammon

Gam"mon, v. t. [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. Totten.

The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.

To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

Backgammon.

To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his "men" or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person.

To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.

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