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Definition of Gammon

1. Noun. Meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked).

Definition of Gammon

1. n. The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.

2. v. t. To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

3. n. Backgammon.

4. 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.

5. v. t. To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.

Definition of Gammon

1. Noun. The lower or hind part of a side of bacon. ¹

2. Noun. (backgammon) A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not taken a single stone; (also, rarely, backgammon, the game itself). ¹

3. Noun. (nautical) A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning). ¹

4. Noun. (dated) Chatter, ridiculous nonsense. ¹

5. Verb. To cure bacon by salting. ¹

6. Verb. To lash with ropes (on a ship). ¹

7. Verb. (colloquial) (dated) To deceive, to lie plausibly. ¹

8. Verb. (backgammon) To beat by a gammon (without the opponent taking a stone). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gammon

1. to mislead by deceptive talk [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gammon

Literary usage of Gammon

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"When you've seen as much of this world's villany, gammon, as I have, ... Well—and may I ask, gammon, what is the particular occasion ofthat screwed up ..."

2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"It was what gammon now felt. His head whirled. He pressed it between his two hands. ... gammon wished that the Marky should perform at once in his Cirque. ..."

3. A History of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of by George Magruder Battey (1922)
"Von gammon was born Dec. 4, 1879, at Rome. His paternal grandfather was Col. Wm. Gamble gammon, Tennessee farmer and banker, who died in 1895 at Rome and ..."

4. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"L.) ' A gammon of bacon ; ' i Hen. IV, ii. i. 26. —OF gamboa, the old form of F. jambon, corresponding to OF gambe for jambe Cotgrave explains jambon by ' a ..."

5. Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors by Walter Hamilton (1887)
"gammon and spinage— Heigh ho ! said Henry Colburn. On the road he spouted from Pope, He soon arrived at the Union Club, Heigh ho ! said Redding ; And he ..."

6. The Hand-book of Games--: comprising new or carefully revised treatises on by H.G. Bohn (1867)
"Two sixes (the second best throw), should be played Iwo on your adversary's bar point, and two on your own bar point, for a gammon, or a hit. III. ..."

7. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1799)
"Cinq trois, make the trois point in your table, for a gammon or for a hit. Cinq deuce, play two men from the five placed in your ..."

8. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"When you've seen as much of this world's villany, gammon, as I have, ... Well—and may I ask, gammon, what is the particular occasion ofthat screwed up ..."

9. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"It was what gammon now felt. His head whirled. He pressed it between his two hands. ... gammon wished that the Marky should perform at once in his Cirque. ..."

10. A History of Rome and Floyd County, State of Georgia, United States of by George Magruder Battey (1922)
"Von gammon was born Dec. 4, 1879, at Rome. His paternal grandfather was Col. Wm. Gamble gammon, Tennessee farmer and banker, who died in 1895 at Rome and ..."

11. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"L.) ' A gammon of bacon ; ' i Hen. IV, ii. i. 26. —OF gamboa, the old form of F. jambon, corresponding to OF gambe for jambe Cotgrave explains jambon by ' a ..."

12. Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors by Walter Hamilton (1887)
"gammon and spinage— Heigh ho ! said Henry Colburn. On the road he spouted from Pope, He soon arrived at the Union Club, Heigh ho ! said Redding ; And he ..."

13. The Hand-book of Games--: comprising new or carefully revised treatises on by H.G. Bohn (1867)
"Two sixes (the second best throw), should be played Iwo on your adversary's bar point, and two on your own bar point, for a gammon, or a hit. III. ..."

14. Sporting Magazine edited by [Anonymus AC02751662] (1799)
"Cinq trois, make the trois point in your table, for a gammon or for a hit. Cinq deuce, play two men from the five placed in your ..."

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