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