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Gammon
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 5
Part of speech: noun (n.)
The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 5
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. Backgammon.
2. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.]
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 5
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 4 of 5
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. 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. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] Hood.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 5 of 5
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. Totten.