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gammon - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'gammon' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Gammon [ n.]
- 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.