"It is always awkward doing business with an alias."
The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



GAM:


(A) a lens in a set of goggles


(B) an artificial reef of used tire carcasses, partially filled with concrete and sunk individually.


(C) the smallest lamb in a flock


(D) [Welsh] A hinge.


(E) Old English, obs., livestock market


(F) the basic unit of verse meter consisting of any of various fixed combinations or groups of stressed and unstressed or long and short syllables


(G) a ventral muscular surface or process of a mollusk


(H) n. [OE. gaem ] an adjustable stop in an old-style printing press that sets the die-to-paper force limit


(I) a visit or friendly conversation at sea or ashore especially between whalers; or, a school of whales


(J) a cynosure


(K) a cant language spoken by 9,000 "Walking Irish" gypsies in the United States. Also known as "Shelta" or "Gammen" or "Pavee". Today this 13th Century language is spoken by 86,000 "Irish Travellers" worldwide.


(L) (obsolete) preserved fruit; cf. "jam"

Last edited by Alex Williams; 09/26/06 10:39 PM.