Gammon
The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
Backgammon.
An imposition or hoax; humbug.
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.
To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
Related Definitions:
Able,
An,
And,
Antagonist,
Any,
As,
Backgammon,
Bacon,
Band,
Beat,
Been,
Before,
Board,
Bowsprit,
Buttock,
By,
Cajole,
Chain,
Dried,
Dry,
End,
Fasten,
Flitch,
From,
Game,
Gammon,
Get,
His,
Hoax,
Hog,
Home,
Humbug,
Has,
Impose,
Imposition,
In,
Iron,
Lower,
Make,
Men,
Of,
On,
Or,
Person,
Rope,
Salt,
Salted,
Smoke,
Smoked,
Stem,
The,
Them,
Thigh,
To,
Vessel,
Withdraw
Copyright © 2001 - 2012 BrainyQuote
BookRags Media Network
