📖 Definitions of "Gammoning"
verb
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To cure bacon by salting.
verb
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To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone).
verb
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To lash with ropes (on a ship).
verb
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To deceive; to lie plausibly to.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Gammoning"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| jambonnoun | (Ireland, British) A square puff pastry containing ham and cheese. |
| hamnoun | (uncountable) Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food. |
| gaff rignoun | (nautical) A sailing rig that has a fore-and-aft sail supported by a spar called a gaff. |
| balknoun | (agriculture) An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing. |
| cordelingnoun | The pulling of a boat by people walking along the shore holding an attached rope. |
| dead man's ropenoun | Synonym of sea-laces (“the seaweed Chorda filum”). |
| baglonoun | (nautical) A two-masted trading boat. |
| fishing-smacknoun | A type of sailing vessel, commonly rigged fore and aft and having a hold for the catch. |
| riggernoun | One whose occupation is to fit the rigging of a ship or of a counterweight system. |
| foregangernoun | (archaic, rare) One who or that which goes before; a forerunner; a harbinger; a predecessor. |
| chain boatnoun | A boat fitted up for recovering lost cables, anchors, etc. |
| ringsailnoun | (nautical) A light sail set abaft and beyond the leech of a boom-and-gaff sail. |
| luggernoun | A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. |
| crabnoun | Any crustacean of the infraorder Brachyura, having five pairs of legs, the foremost of which are in the form of claws, and a carapace. |
| gaffnoun | A tool consisting of a large metal hook with a handle or pole, especially the one used to pull large fish aboard a boat. |
| gangingnoun | The formation of a gang or clique. |
| camelnoun | A mammalian beast of burden, much used in desert areas, of the genus Camelus. |
| fishliningnoun | (prison slang) The practice of attaching an object to a string so as to pass it illicitly from one prison cell to another. |
| drag sailnoun | (nautical) A sea anchor. |
| sailsnoun | (nautical, slang) The sailmaker on board ship. |
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