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GAMMON
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Gammon.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Game.English : from Anglo-Norman French gambon ‘ham’, a diminutive of gambe, Norman-Picard form of Old French jambe ‘leg’ (Late Latin gamba), hence probably a nickname for someone with some peculiarity of the legs or gait.
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n.
The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.
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.
n.
The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gammon
n.
Backgammon.
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.
n.
A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
v. t.
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
n.
The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
n.
An imposition or hoax; humbug.
imp. & p. p.
of Gammon