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- Gammon - n. - The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
- Gammon - v. t. - To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
- Gammon - n. - Backgammon.
- Gammon - n. - An imposition or hoax; humbug.
- Gammon - 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.
- Gammon - v. t. - To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
- 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.
- Gammoned - imp. & p. p. - of Gammon
- Gammoning - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Gammon
- Gammoning - 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.
- Gammoning - n. - The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.
- Gammon - 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.