Definition of "gammoning" [gam•mon•ing]

• Rope lashings on the bowsprit of a boat. (noun)
• Present participle of gammon. (verb)

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• "They did not entirely believe in Gray's complaints, they thought he was "gammoning" -- trying to get out of his fair share of the work."
• "Of these, the most important is called the gammoning, which consists of a strong and well-stretched hawser, passed up and down successively, in perpendicular turns, over the bowsprit and through a hole horizontally cut in the stem."
• ""I can't make any promise," replied I. "Then I can't tell," replied he, "so I may e'en go on deck and tell father that I cannot manage it;" and as he said the latter part of this speech, the undaunted little villain actually laughed at the idea of gammoning his father, as he termed it."