fulhams

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There is no loading of the dice, or throwing of fulhams.

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
Note: [11] It appears that false dice were originally made at Fulham; hence so called, high and low fulhams; the high ones were the numbers 4, 5, 6.

The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, In All Times and Countries, especially in England and in France 1870

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(pl. noun) - Loaded dice are called high and low men, or high and low fulhams, by Ben Jonson and other writers of his time, either because they were made at Fulham in London's West End or from that place being the resort of sharpers. --Francis Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1796

February 11, 2018