"gammon" Definition

Definitions for the word "gammon" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. v. t.
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Backgammon.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
An imposition or hoax; humbug.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
1 bottom piece of a flitch of bacon including a hind leg. 2 ham of a pig cured like bacon. [french: related to *jamb]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
9. slang
deceit, humbug, a false and ridiculous story. _Anglo-Saxon_, GAMEN, game, sport.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
10. slang
to hoax, to deceive merrily, to laugh at a person, to tell an untrue but plausible story, to make game of, or, in the provincial dialect, to make GAME on;—“who’s thou makin’ thy GAM’ on?” _i.e._, of whom are you making a fool?—_Yorkshire._
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864

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