Gammon /(găm"mŭn)/

1. The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.

imp. & p. p. Gammoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Gammoning

1. To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

1. Backgammon.
2. A victory in the game of backgammon in which one player gammons another, i. e., the winner bears off all of his pieces before his opponent bears off any pieces; as, he won the match with three gammons in a row.
3. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.]

1. 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. In certain variants of the game one who gammons an opponent scores twice the normal value of the game.
2. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.]

1. To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron. (Naut.)