Meaning of GAMMON in English

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Meaning of GAMMON in English

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

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