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Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-æm|-æm

Noun
gam

1. slang: A person's leg.
2. A collective noun used to refer to a group of whales; A pod.

#*1862, Henry Theodore Cheever, The Whalemen's Adventures in the Southern Ocean, Darton & Hodge, page 116.
#*:Upon getting into a "gam" of whales, this boat, together with that of one of the mates, pulled for a single whale that was seen at a distance from the others, and succeeded in getting square up to their victim unperceived.

1. context|by extension a social gathering of whalers or other ships.

#* 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, Harper and Brothers, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Moby-Dick/Chapter_53| chapter 53].
#*: But what is a Gam? You might wear out your index-finger running up and down the columns of dictionaries, and never find the word, Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster�s ark does not hold it. Nevertheless, this same expressive word has now for many years been in constant use among some fifteen thousand true born Yankees. Certainly, it needs a definition, and should be incorporated into the Lexicon. With that view, let me learnedly define it. Gam. NOUN�A social meeting of two (or more) Whaleships, generally on a cruising-ground; when, after exchanging hails, they exchange visits by boats� crews, the two captains remaining, for the time, on board of one ship, and the two chief mates on the other.

Verb
to gam

1. nautical to make a social visit on another ship at sea

Bandjalang

Noun
gam

1. (Wahlubal) hair of the head

Synonyms
guhndun

Category:Bandjalang nouns

Swedish

Noun
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gam

1. sv-birds a vulture or condor; scavenging birds living in Africa, Europe, Asia and America
2. sv-colloquial someone who takes advantage of a demise or a bankruptcy, usually in a legal, but, for the affected people, offensive way

#:Innan konkurshandlingarna ens var undertecknade samlades gamarna i verkstaden för att se vad som var värt att sälja vidare

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