Obs. [Fr.: see GAMMON.]
1. = GAMMON 2.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 150. The Normans … whose Bacon flitches and Jambons Varro extolleth.
1668. R. L’Estrange, Vis. Quev. (1708), 206. I would not affront the Jambon; for Water upon Gammon, would be false Heraldry.
† 2. A mollusk of genus Pinna (F. jambonneau).
1753. Chambers, Cycl. Supp., Jambon,… a kind of sea-shell, resembling a ham of bacon. It is a species of pinna marina.
