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Gammon

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Webster'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.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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