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n.
The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
n.
Backgammon.
n.
A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
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.
v. t.
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
v. t.
To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Gammon
v. t.
To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
imp. & p. p.
of Gammon
n.
The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.
n.
An imposition or hoax; humbug.
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