gammon : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: gammon	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for gammon
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gammon n meat cut from the thigh of a hog (usually smoked) [syn: ham, jambon, gammon] hind portion of a side of bacon
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gammon \Gam"mon\ (-m[ucr]n), n. [OF. gambon, F. jambon, fr. OF. gambe leg, F. jambe. See {Gambol}, n., and cf. {Ham}.] The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. --Goldsmith.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gammon \Gam"mon\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Gammoned} (-m[ucr]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Gammoning}.] To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. [1913 Webster]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gammon \Gam"mon\, n. [See 2d {Game}.] 1. Backgammon. 2. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gammon \Gam"mon\, v. t. 1. To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his [bd]men[b8] or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person. 2. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] --Hood.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Gammon \Gam"mon\, v. 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.