gam
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France center back Raphael Varane said there will be no danger of complacency among his teammates in a gam against the world’s No. 22-ranked team.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 13, 2022
Lucky she wasn’t whistled for a gam misconduct.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2021
Thirteen years later, Kobold enlisted five friends to help him carry what appeared to be the statue’s gam into his home, near the city of Hamburg.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 29, 2017
In Hebrew they say gam zeh ya'avor—this too shall pass.
From Golf Digest ● Nov. 8, 2016
From the Sansc. gam, to go, is derived, according to Bopp and Monier Williams, the name of the Ganges, in Sanscrit Gangâ.
From The River-Names of Europe by Robert Ferguson
They gammed us the other side of St. Lawrence Island.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
He fumbled and cursed, but that wasn't the worst, For he couldn't at all get free, And he cried, "I am gammed, and injustibly nammed On the luggardly whango tree."
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Each ship which passed or dropped anchor at East Cape was gammed; each time the captain returned without word of his purpose.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
He was an old Arctic Ocean harpooner, and had once sailed on a whaler which had been gammed by the Ice Pilot.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
Something there is of this nature on board the other schooner, her people often dropping hints to my officers and men, when they have been gamming.
From The Sea Lions The Lost Sealers by James Fenimore Cooper
Captain Kelly was the first to notice that whales sing One Sunday, while officers from three ships were "gamming" over their afternoon walrus-meat, Kelly dropped his glass with, "I hear a Bowhead!"
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
The change of course, the gamming by the Japanese sealer, the mystery of the skipper's actions—all these drove silence into the mates' hearts.
From The Ice Pilot by Henry Leverage
Come on, shipmates!" he exclaimed, "stop gamming and get a move on and snug down this yer awning if you don't want to lose it.
From The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest by John Henry Goldfrap
As soon as we came near enough, "gamming" commenced, for all of us were anxious to know how each other had fared.
From The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales by Frank T. Bullen
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