slang. Forms: 6 fullan, 67 fullam, 68 fullom, (7 fullum), 7 fulham. [Of uncertain origin: by some conjectured to be derived from the place-name Fulham, once a noted haunt of gamesters. Another conjecture is that the oldest form fullan = full one, which would suit the sense.] A die loaded at the corner. (A high fulham was loaded so as to ensure a cast of 4, 5, or 6; a low fulham, so as to ensure a cast of 1, 2, or 3.)
c. 1550. Dice-Play, C iiij a. Fullans be square outward. Yet being within at the corner with lead, or other pondorus matter stopped, minister as great an aduantage as any of the rest.
1592. Nobody & Someb., in Simpson, Sch. Shaks. (1878), I. 337. Those are called high Fulloms.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., I. iii. 94. Let Vultures gripe thy guts: for gourd, and Fullam holds: & high and low beguiles the rich & poore.
1605. Lond. Prodigal, I. i. I bequeath two bale of false dice, videlicet, high men and low men, fulloms, stop-cater-traies, and other bones of function.
1674. Cotton, Compl. Gamester, 12. This they do by false Dice, as High-Fullams 4, 5, 6. Low-Fullams 1, 2, 3.
1711. Puckle, The Club, 21. At dice they have The Doctors, the fulloms.
1801. Sporting Mag., XVIII. 100. A bale of fulhams.
1889. Doyle, Micah Clarke, xxx. 316. There is no loading of the dice, or throwing of fulhams.
fig. 16447. Cleveland, Char. Lond. Diurn. (1677), 108. Now a Scotch-mans Tongue runs high Fullams. There is a Cheat in his Idiom.
1664. Butler, Hud., II. i. 642. One cut out to pass your tricks on, With Fulhams of Poetick fiction.