Definition of "gamming" [gamming]

• Present participle of gam. (verb)

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• "As soon as we came near enough, "gamming" commenced, for all of us were anxious to know how each other had fared."
• "We had heard many glowing accounts from visitors, when "gamming," of the delights of this well-known port of call for whalers, and under our new commander we had little doubt that we should be allowed considerable liberty during our stay."
• "Prosaic and uneventful to the last degree was our passage, the only incident worth recording being our "gamming" of the PASSAMAQUODDY, of Martha's Vineyard, South Sea whaler; eighteen months out, with one thousand barrels of sperm oil on board."