Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gammon"
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) 1.7 (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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