What does "gammon" mean?

Gammon: Backgammon.

Additional senses

  1. 2.An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.]
  2. 3.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.
  3. 4.To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] Hood.
  4. 5.To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. Totten.

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