Thesaurus: gammon

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1. n. The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
2. v. t. To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
3. n. Backgammon.
4. n. An imposition or hoax; humbug.
5. 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.
6. v. t. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
7. v. t. To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
8. n. meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
9. n. hind portion of a side of bacon
10. The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith. To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. 1. Backgammon. 2. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.] 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. To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. Totten.
11. The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; thelower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.
12. n. hind portion of a side of bacon