n. | 1. | The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. |
v. t. | 1. | To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. |
n. | 1. | Backgammon. |
2. | A victory in the game of backgammon in which one player gammons another, i. e., the winner bears off all of his pieces before his opponent bears off any pieces; | |
3. | An imposition or hoax; humbug. | |
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; |
2. | To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. | |
1. | (Naut.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. |
Noun | 1. | gammon - meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) |
2. | gammon - hind portion of a side of bacon |