| 释义 |
† ˈhigh-ˌrunner Obs.
A false die loaded so as to run on the high numbers; cf. highman. So ˈhigh-ˌrunning ppl. a.
1668Dryden Evening's Love iii. i, The high-running dice. 1670Cotton Espernon ii. v. 235 False Dice..the high, and the low runners. 1721J. Dennis Lett. II. 407 (N.) The rhetorical author..makes use of his tropes and figures, which are his high and low runners, to cheat us. |