fulham slang.
(ˈfʊləm)
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.)
| 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 Shakes. 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, Two bale of false dice, videlicet, high men and low men, fulloms..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 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. 1644–7 Cleveland Char. Lond. Diurn. (1677) 108 Now a Scotch-man's 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. |