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A certain portion of the hog is called in Italian gambone, whence our English word gambon or gammon.
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There are thousands of them on Ailsa Craig, in the Frith of Clyde, and on the Bass Rock, in the Frith of Forth, opposite Tantallon. line 49. gammon (O.Fr. gambon, Lat. gamba, 'joint of a leg'), the buttock or thigh of a hog salted and dried; the lower end of a flitch.
Marmion Walter Scott 1801
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Thanks gambon … any link … where u do not need to download something?
WordPress.com News 2009
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I am with gambon on the team with a slight change …
Le Grove 2009
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27 July 2010 gambon corner shud now be renamed cruise corner
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