[f. LOW a. + MAN. Cf. also HIGHMAN.] In pl. Dice loaded so as to turn up low numbers. (Cf. LOW-RUNNER.)
1592. Kyd, Sol. & Pers., II. i. 223. Heere are tall men and little men…. Hie men and low men, thou wouldst say.
1596. Lodge, Wits Miserie (1879), 47. As for Dice, he hath all kind of sortes, Fullams, Langrets, bard quater traies, hie men, low men, some stopt with quick siluer, some with gold, some ground.
1608. Dekker, Belman Lond., E 3. The names of false Dice…. A bale of Gordes, with as many High-men as Low-men for passage.
a. 1612. Harington, Epigr., I. lxxix. (1618), D 3 b. Then play thou for a pound or for a pin, High men are low men, still are foysted in.
1622, a. 1643. [see HIGHMAN].
