English dictionary
gammon
/'g/&/m/@/n/
Definitions, examples, synonyms and antonyms from WordNet 3.0.
noun
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meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked)
Source: WordNet 3.0
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hind portion of a side of bacon
Source: WordNet 3.0
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The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
Source: webster1913
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Backgammon.
Source: webster1913
verb
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To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
Source: webster1913
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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 <i>gammon</i> a person.
Source: webster1913
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To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
Source: webster1913