Index of English words, starting with "ga"

(1) - Gammer (n.) An old wife; an old woman; -- correlative of gaffer, an old man.

(1) - Gammon (v. t.) To fasten (a bowsprit) to the stem of a vessel by lashings of rope or chain, or by a band of iron.
(2) - Gammon (v. t.) To impose on; to hoax; to cajole.
(3) - Gammon (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.
(4) - Gammon (n.) An imposition or hoax; humbug.
(5) - Gammon (n.) Backgammon.
(6) - Gammon (v. t.) To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
(7) - Gammon (n.) The buttock or thigh of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch.

(1) - Gamogenesis (n.) The production of offspring by the union of parents of different sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite of agamogenesis.