The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gammoning \Gam"mon*ing\, n. [From 5th Gammon.] (Naut.) 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.
Gammoning fashion, in the style of gammoning lashing, that is, having the turns of rope crossed.
Gammoning hole (Naut.), a hole cut through the knee of the head of a vessel for the purpose of gammoning the bowsprit.
Gammoning \Gam"mon*ing\, n. [From 4th Gammon.] The act of imposing upon or hoaxing a person. [Colloq.]
Gammon \Gam"mon\ (g[a^]m"m[u^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gammoned (g[a^]m"m[u^]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Gammoning.] To make bacon of; to salt and dry in smoke.
Wiktionary
n. rope lashings on the bowsprit of a boat. vb. (present participle of gammon English)
Usage examples of "gammoning".
But apart from that, sir, and the forward chain-pump choked, foretop halliards badly chafed, and bowsprit gammoning not what it might be, everything is shipshape, tolerably shipshape.
Now she has been handled rough bowsprit gone in the gammoning, headrails all ahoo, not a dead eye left this side, hardly.
We'll need a kind of gammoning here, Mr Watt, until the carpenter can attend to the cap.