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GAM'MON, n.
GAM'MON, v.t. To make bacon; to pickle and dry in smoke.
GAM'MON, v.t. In the game of back-gammon, the party that, by fortunate throws of the dice or by superior skill in moving, withdraws all his men from the board, before his antagonist has been able to get his men home and withdraw any of them from his table, gammons his antagonist.
The buttock or thigh 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.
[1913 Webster] Backgammon.
An imposition or hoax; humbug.
[Colloq.] 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.
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.
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