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n.
The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
n.
Backgammon.
n.
A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
imp. & p. p.
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n.
The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.
v. t.
To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
v. t.
To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
n.
The lashing or iron band by which the bowsprit of a vessel is secured to the stem to opposite the lifting action of the forestays.
n.
An imposition or hoax; humbug.
v. t.
To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
v. t.
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.
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