Gammon

[gæmәn]

Definition

(noun.) hind portion of a side of bacon.

Editor: Vince--From WordNet

Definition

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

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

(n.) Backgammon.

(n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.

(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.

(v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.

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

Editor: Rosanne

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Imposition, CHEAT, hoax, humbug.

v. a. Deceive, cheat, humbug, hoax, chouse, trick, dupe, gull, cozen, overreach, outwit, bamboozle, circumvent, delude, diddle, beguile, mislead, inveigle, impose upon.

Checked by Andrew

Definition

n. (naut.) the lashing of the bowsprit.—v.t. to lash the bowsprit with ropes.

n. (mostly coll.) a hoax: nonsense humbug.—v.t. to hoax impose upon.—ns. Gamm′oner; Gamm′oning.

n. the preserved thigh of a hog.

Typed by Betsy