Gammon

Definition:

  • (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.

Compare gammon with other words:

gammon vs. mammon

gammon vs. pork

gammon vs. ham

gammon vs. gammoning

gammon vs. ship

gammon vs. stem

bowsprit vs. gammon

gammon vs. rope

gammon vs. stone

gammon vs. victory

gammon vs. hind

backgammon vs. gammon

bacon vs. gammon

gammon vs. hit