gammon vs plane

gammon

verb
  • To lash with ropes (on a ship). 

  • To cure bacon by salting. 

  • To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone). 

noun
  • Backgammon (the game itself). 

  • A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning). 

  • A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone. 

  • A cut of quick-cured pork leg. 

  • A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively. 

plane

verb
  • To move in a way that lifts the bow out of the water. 

  • To glide or soar. 

  • To smooth (wood) with a plane. 

noun
  • A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc. (Compare wing, airfoil, hydrofoil.) 

  • A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus. 

  • A level of existence or development. 

  • An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions. 

  • A sycamore. 

  • Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each. 

  • A level or flat surface. 

  • An airplane; an aeroplane. 

  • The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia. 

  • A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. 

  • A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane). 

adj
  • Of a surface: flat or level. 

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