LekhoriLekhoriA cut of quick-cured pork leg.
[T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.
A joke, trick; play, sport, merriment.
A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone.
Toward the end of the game Roger had not borne off a single stone belonging to Roseanna, and she scored a gammon. She could not hide the triumph in her eyes. “Perhaps you will play a better game if we play for something closer to your heart,” she suggested.
A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning).
Chatter, ridiculous nonsense.
Some people maintains^([sic]) that an Englishman's house is his castle. That's gammon.
A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively.
Yeah, let the bitch drown / Got the gammons all feeling sick now / Great Britannia's lost all hope, she's broke
To cure bacon by salting.
To joke, kid around, play.
To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
Fake, pretend; bullshit.
I was just being gammon.
the Shelta or Cant language of the Irish Travelling Community.
From Middle English gamnen, gomnen, gamenen, gomenen, from Old English gamnian, gæmnian, gamenian (“to joke, play”), from Proto-West Germanic *gamanōn, from Proto-Germanic *gamanōną (“to play, have fu...
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To lash with ropes (on a ship).
“No, by thunder !” he cried, “it's us must break the treaty when the time comes; and till then I'll gammon that doctor, if I have to ile his boots with brandy.”
To deceive; to lie plausibly to.
And no use for anyone to tell Charles that this was because the Family was in mourning for Mr Granville Darracott […]: Charles might only have been second footman at Darracott Place for a couple of months when that disaster occurred, but no one could gammon him into thinking that my lord cared a spangle for his heir.