Definition of gammon
- 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.