slang. Forms: 6 fullan, 6–7 fullam, 6–8 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.)

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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.

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1592.  Nobody & Someb., in Simpson, Sch. Shaks. (1878), I. 337. Those are called high Fulloms.

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1598.  Shaks., Merry W., I. iii. 94. Let Vultures gripe thy guts: for gourd, and Fullam holds: & high and low beguiles the rich & poore.

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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.

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1674.  Cotton, Compl. Gamester, 12. This they do by false Dice, as High-Fullams 4, 5, 6. Low-Fullams 1, 2, 3.

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1711.  Puckle, The Club, 21. At dice they have The Doctors, the fulloms.

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1801.  Sporting Mag., XVIII. 100. A bale of fulhams.

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1889.  Doyle, Micah Clarke, xxx. 316. There is no loading of the dice, or throwing of fulhams.

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  fig.  1644–7.  Cleveland, Char. Lond. Diurn. (1677), 108. Now a Scotch-man’s Tongue runs high Fullams. There is a Cheat in his Idiom.

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1664.  Butler, Hud., II. i. 642. One cut out to pass your tricks on, With Fulhams of Poetick fiction.

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