Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A jamming or clogging.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of gam.
Examples
“As soon as we came near enough, "gamming" commenced, for all of us were anxious to know how each other had fared.”
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
“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.”
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
“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.”
The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
“It is not about what anybody downloads or not, if you pay for 2 or 4 MB PER SECOND that is what you should get, no matter if it is documents, gamming, music or video.”
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“Previously I mentioned Adventure gamming supplies AGS What a great store that was.”
“Knowing Bloat, perhaps that's what it is, young lady gamming well-set-up young man, several poses-more wholesome than anything this war's ever photographed ... life, at least ....”
“Amidships and for'ard, gamming with the boat's crew, the deck was crowded with blacks of both sexes.”
“And as for a tiller, the whale-boat never admits of any such effeminacy; and therefore as in gamming a complete boat's crew must leave the ship, and hence as the boat steerer or harpooneer is of the number, that subordinate is the steersman upon the occasion, and the captain, having no place to sit in, is pulled off to his visit all standing like a pine tree.”
“He replied that 'Moby Dick' was responsible for his three years of life before the mast when a lad, and added that while 'gamming' on board another vessel he had once fallen in with a member of the boat's crew which rescued Melville from his friendly imprisonment among the Typees.”
“[2] This visiting between the crews of ships at sea is called, among whalemen, ` ` gamming. '”
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Words I'd Like to Use Someday
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Learned (or Encountered) in Reading
I have a list for words learned from Newsweek; here's where I keep all the stuff from other shit I read.
Except when I'm looking stuff up and find new words that way. Those go on their...cellie, laminectomy, mridangam, terroir, hypospadias, crus, corpora cavernosa, crura, uretheral meatus, bartholin's gland, coloquintida, colopexy and 921 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
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Like True Newfoundlanders
A place for me to store my Newfoundland English, as I learn it. (Might take a while.)
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chained_bear "We strolled across the frozen sea to visit the other ships, the nearest of which was two miles away. Visiting is called gamming by whalers. We learned the gossip of the fleet, who had taken the first whale...."
--Walter Noble Burns, A Year with a Whaler, 99 Apr 27, 2008
chained_bear "The common eider is called 'gammy bird' in Newfoundland for its habit of gathering in flocks for sociable quacking sessions. The name is related to the days of sail, when two ships falling in with each other at sea would back their yards and shout the news. The ship to windward would back her main yards and the one to leeward her foreyards for close maneuvering. This was gamming." --E. Annie Proulx, The Shipping News Dec 30, 2007