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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Gammon

Gām'mon, n.

noun

n. [O. Fr. gambon, N. Fr. jambon, from gambe, jambe, leg; Sp. jamon, ham; It. gambone, a big leg. See GAMASHES.]

  1. The buttock or thigh of a hog, pickled and smoked or dried; a smoked ham.
  2. A certain game with dice; backgammon.
  3. An imposition or hoax; humbug.

Gām'mon, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. GAMMONED; p. pr. & vb. n. GAMMONING.]

  1. To make bacon of; to pickle and dry in smoke.
  2. (Naut.) To fasten, as a bowsprit to the stem of a ship, by several turns of a rope. Totten.

Gām'mon, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. 1. To beat or excel in the game of backgammon, by withdrawing all one's counters from the board through fortunate throws of the dice, or by superior skill in moving, before an antagonist has been able to get his counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person. 2. To impose on by creating a belief in improbable stories; to humbug. Dickens.