gammoned

Verb (1)

gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)

1. To cure bacon by salting.

Verb (2)

gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)

1. (dialectal) To joke, kid around, play.
2. To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).

Verb (3)

gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)

1. 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.”1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part VI (Captain Silver), page 251

Verb (4)

gammon (third-person singular simple present gammons, present participle gammoning, simple past and past participle gammoned)

1. (colloquial, dated, transitive) 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...1959, Georgette Heyer, chapter 1, in The Unknown Ajax

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