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(1):

(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.

(2):

(n.) Backgammon.

(3):

(n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.

(4):

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

(5):

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

(6):

(n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.

(7):

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

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Ammon'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/ammon.html. 1828.
 
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