·noun An imposition or hoax; humbug.
III. Gammon ·vt To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
V. Gammon ·noun The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
VI. Gammon ·vt To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
VII. Gammon ·vt 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.