Gammon

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. [imp. & p. p. Gammoned (găm"mŭnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gammoning.]
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; as, he won the match with three gammons in a row.
	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; as, to gammon a person. In certain variants of the game one who gammons an opponent scores twice the normal value of the game.
	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) Synonyms: ham, jambon
	2.	gammon - hind portion of a side of bacon

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