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Webster 1913 Edition

Gammon

Gam′mon

(găm′mŭn)
,
Noun.
[OF.
gambon
, F.
jambon
, fr. OF.
gambe
leg, F.
jambe
. See
Gambol
,
Noun.
, and cf.
Ham
.]
The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
Goldsmith.

Gam′mon

(găm′mŭn)
,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gammoned
(găm′mŭnd)
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Gammoning
.]
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

Gam′mon

(găm′mŭn)
,
Noun.
[See 2d
Game
.]
1.
Backgammon.
3.
An imposition or hoax; humbug.
[Colloq.]
2.
To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
[Colloq.]
Hood.

Gam′mon

,
Verb.
T.
[Etymol. unknown.]
(Naut.)
To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
Totten.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gammon

GAM'MON

, n.
1.
The buttock or thigh of a hog, pickled and smoked or dried; a smoked ham.
2.
A game, called usually back-gammon, which see.

GAM'MON

,
Verb.
T.
To make bacon; to pickle and dry in smoke.
1.
To fasten a bowsprit to the stem of a ship by several turns of a rope.

GAM'MON

,
Verb.
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.

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