Vocabulary : Gamin to Gammoning

Gamin : A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.
Gaming : of Game ;; The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
Gamma : The third letter (/, / = Eng. G) of the Greek alphabet.
Gamma rays : Very penetrating rays not appreciably deflected by a magnetic or electric field, emitted by radioactive substances. The prevailing view is that they are non-periodic ether pulses differing from Rontgen rays only in being more penetrating.
Gammadion : A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.

Gammed : of Gam
Gammer : An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.
Gammon : The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. ;; To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke. ;; Backgammon. ;; An imposition or hoax; humbug. ;; 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. ;; To impose on; to hoax; to cajole. ;; To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
Gammoned : of Gammon
Gammoning : of Gammon ;; 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. ;; The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person.

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