GAMMONING

Etymology

Noun

gammoning (plural gammonings)

Rope lashings on the bowsprit of a boat.

Verb

gammoning

present participle of gammon

Source: Wiktionary

Gam"mon*ing, n. Etym: [From 5th Gammon.] (Naut.)

Definition: 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. Gammoning fashion, in the style of gammoning lashing, that is, having the turns of rope crossed.

– Gammoning hole (Naut.), a hole cut through the knee of the head of a vessel for the purpose of gammoning the bowsprit.

Gam"mon*ing, n. Etym: [From 4th Gammon.]

Definition: The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person. [Colloq.]

GAMMON

Gam"mon, n. Etym: [OF. gambon, F. jambon, fr. OF. gambe leg, F. jambe. See Gambol, n., and cf. Ham.]

Definition: The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.

Gam"mon, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gameed; p. pr. & vb. n. Gameing.]

Definition: To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.

Gam"mon, n. Etym: [See 2d Game.]

1. Backgammon.

2. An imposition or hoax; humbug. [Colloq.]

Gam"mon, v. t.

1. 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.

2. To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. [Colloq.] Hood.

Gam"mon, v. t. Etym: [Etymol. unknown.] (Naut.)

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition