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

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

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

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

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

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 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..

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.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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..

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 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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