ham
/ˈhæm/ noun A2- The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.
- A thigh and/or buttock of a hog slaughtered for meat; (occasionally) the corresponding cut from some other animal.
- Meat from the thigh and/or buttock of a hog cured for food. · a little piece of ham for the cat
- The back of the thigh of humans or certain other animals.
- Electronic mail that is wanted; email that is not spam or junk mail.
Plural hams
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“He is at present reported from Leicester, Nottingham, Southampton, Derby, East Ham, Richmond, and fourteen other places.
In three of them—East Ham, Leicester, and Liverpool—there is a clear case against him, and he has actually been arrested.
“Yes, yes, no doubt he is somewhere, and no doubt we shall get him; but I would not have you waste your energies in East Ham or Liverpool.
At the expiration of a year the governor was transferred; he had obtained charge of the fortress at Ham.
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