Gam"mon (?), 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.
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Gam"mon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gameed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Gameing.]
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
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Gam"mon, n. [See 2d Game.]
1.
Backgammon.
2.
An imposition or hoax; humbug.
[Colloq.]
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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.
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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.
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