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Gammoning :: Gammoning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gammo.

Point :: Point (n.) One of the spaces on a backgammon board.

Gammon :: Gammon (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.

Table :: Table (n.) The games of backgammon and of draughts.

Gammon :: Gammon (n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch..

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

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..

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..

Gammoned :: Gammoned (imp. & p. p.) of Gammo.

Table :: Table (n.) One of the divisions of a backgammon board; as, to play into the right-hand table..

Irish :: Irish (n. sing. & pl.) An old game resembling backgammon.

Parchesi :: Parchesi (n.) A game, somewhat resembling backgammon, originating in India..

Doublet :: Doublet (a.) A game somewhat like backgammon.

Hit :: Hit (n.) A game won at backgammon after the adversary has removed some of his men. It counts less than a gammon.

Ticktack :: Ticktack (n.) A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack.

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..

Gammoning :: Gammoning (n.) The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.

Board :: Board (n.) A square or oblong piece of thin wood or other material used for some special purpose, as, a molding board; a board or surface painted or arranged for a game; as, a chessboard; a backgammon board..

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.

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