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