Gammon Synonyms & Definitions

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• GammonDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (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.
2. (v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
3. (n.) Backgammon.
4. (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
5. (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
6. (n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
7. (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.

• GammonedDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (imp. & p. p.) of Gammon