I wonder if that old Kafir was gammoning us," remarked Payne, as the two made their way to the kraals.
When a man is without a shirt, and is buttoned up close to his neck, with merely a handkerchief round it, to make an appearance of cleanliness, it is termed "gammoning the draper!
You did quite right; vell, vile I can get fifteen bob a day by gammoning a maim, the devil may vork for me.
A mortise-opening cut through the knee of the head, between the cheeks, through which the gammoning is passed.
An iron plate bolted to the stem of some vessels for the purpose of supporting the gammoning of the bowsprit.
The gammoning turns are passed from the standing part or bolt forward, over the bowsprit, aft through the knee forward, making a cross lashing.
A sort of triangular ring formed on the end of a gammon-plate, for the gammoning lashing or chain to be made fast to.
Gammoning fashion, in the style of gammoning lashing, that is, having the turns of rope crossed.
Frenchy won't forget us for gammoning him, and pretending to be on his side.
If it arn't old Frenchy gammoning us, sir," said Barney.
A heavy boat is sometimes suspended from the end, the weight of which greatly assists the gammoning process.
At each turn the gammoning hawser is hove taut, while every effort is used to bring the bowsprit down into its place.
Many of those who were lost had climbed out on the bowsprit, and when they were forced overboard by the heat, the melting lead of the gammoning (the lead covering to the chain gammoning securing the bowsprit) dropped on them and killed them.
I won't call you a white man; that would be gammoning you, because man you aren't yet.
But that was only a part of his system of gammoning people," continued Frank.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gammoning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
