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Meaning of 'gammon'
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. [ n.]- Backgammon.
- An imposition or hoax; humbug.
2. Gammon [ v. t.]
- To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. [ 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.
- 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.
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