Gammon

Gammon - Other Definitions

• (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.