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Results for gammon
1. The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
2. To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
3. Backgammon.
4. To beat in the game of backgammon, before an antagonist has been able to get his ½men¸ or counters home and withdraw any of them from the board; as, to gammon a person. In certain variants of the game one who gammons an opponent scores twice the normal value of the game.
5. 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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