gammon

Sinhala Dictionary definitions for gammon

gammon 🔊 /gæˈmʌn/

gammon : පිස්සු

gammon : බොරුව

gammon definition

Noun.

  1. The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.
  2. Backgammon.
  3. An imposition or hoax; humbug.

Transitive verb.

  1. To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
  2. 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.
  3. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
  4. To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.