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

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.

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..

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

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

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

Gammon :: Gammon (v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.

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

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

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

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

Table :: Table (n.) The board on the opposite sides of which backgammon and draughts are played.

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

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

Backgammon :: Backgammon (v. i.) In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first table..

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

Gammon :: Gammon (n.) Backgammon.

Tricktrack :: Tricktrack (n.) An old game resembling backgammon.

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..

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