gammoning, vbl. n. Naut.
(ˈgæmənɪŋ)
[f. gammon v.3 + -ing1.]
The lashing of ropes by which the bowsprit is made fast to the stem or cutwater.
| 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle iii, The Negro threw himself on the Gammoning of the bowsprit. 1853 Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxii. (1856) 280 Her bowsprit..is now completely forced up, broken short off at the gammoning. 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Gammoning, seven or eight turns of a rope-lashing passed alternately over the bowsprit and through a large hole in the cut-water, the better to support the stays of the foremast. |