GAMMON
\ɡˈamən], \ɡˈamən], \ɡ_ˈa_m_ə_n]\
Definitions of GAMMON
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
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An imposition or hoax; humbug.
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To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
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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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An imposition or hoax.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
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An imposition or hoax; humbug.
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To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
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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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An imposition or hoax.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An old woman-the correlative of GAFFER.
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The leg or thigh of a hog pickled and smoked or dried.
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To cure, as bacon:-pr.p. gammoning; pa.p. gammoned.
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A hoax: nonsense.
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To hoax, impose upon.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald