- The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried;
the lower end of a flitch. - Backgammon. - An imposition or hoax; humbug.
2 . Gammon
[ v. t.]
- To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. - 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 impose on; to hoax; to cajole. - To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by
lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.