GAMMON

n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

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

2.
v.

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

3.
n.

Backgammon.

4.
n.

An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.]

5.
v.

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.

6.
v.

To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] Hood.

7.
v.

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

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