Definition of gammon

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Gammon (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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Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
Tricktrack :: Tricktrack (n.) An old game resembling backgammon.
Gammon :: Gammon (n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch..
Point :: Point (n.) One of the spaces on a backgammon board.
Parchesi :: Parchesi (n.) A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India..
Hit :: Hit (n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.
Table :: Table (n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts.
Ticktack :: Ticktack (n.) A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.
Gammoning :: Gammoning (n.) The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.
Irish :: Irish (n. sing. & pl.) An old game resembling backgammon.
Table :: Table (n.) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table..
Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron..
Gammoning :: Gammoning (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.
Table :: Table (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.
Gammon :: Gammon (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
Gammoning :: Gammoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gammo.
Doublet :: Doublet (a.) A game somewhat like backgammon.
Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
Gammon :: Gammon (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..
Backgammon :: Backgammon (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a board marked off into twenty-four spaces called points. Each player has fifteen pieces, or men, the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables..
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