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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gammon \Gam"mon\ (-m[u^]n), n. [OF. gambon, F. jambon, fr OF gambe leg, F. jambe. See {Gambol}, n., and cf {Ham}.] The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. --Goldsmith. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gammon \Gam"mon\, v. t. 1. 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. 2. To impose on to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] --Hood. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gammon \Gam"mon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gammoned} (-m[u^]nd); p. pr & vb n. {Gammoning}.] To make bacon of to salt and dry in smoke. [1913 Webster] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gammon \Gam"mon\, n. [See 2d {Game}.] 1. Backgammon. 2. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gammon \Gam"mon\, v. t. [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. --Totten. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gammon n 1: thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn: {ham}, {jambon}] 2: hind portion of a side of bacon
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