subs. (old).—In pl. dice loaded so as to show 4 or 3 more often than any other number. [The opposite is BARDQUATER-TRAY.]
1591. GREENE, A Notable Discovery of Coosnage [GROSART (1881–3), x. 12]. The Chetor, with a LANGRET, cut contrarie to the vantage. Ibid., 37. Cheats, Barddice, Flats, Forgers, LANGRETS, Gourds.
1594. NASHE, The Unfortunate Traveller [GROSART (1884), v. 27]. LANGRETS, fullams, and all the whole fellowship of them will not afoorde a man his dinner.
1600. ROWLANDS, The Letting of Humours Blood in the Head Vaine, &c., Satyre 3. His LANGREATS with his Hie-men, and his Low.
1612. The Art of Juggling, C, 4. ‘A LANGRET … is a well-favoured die, and seemeth good and square, yet it is forged longer upon the cater and trea than any other way: and therefore it is called a LANGRET.’
