high mann.

Brit.

/ˈhʌɪ man/, U.S.

/ˈhaɪ ˌmæn/

Inflections: Plural high men.

Forms: see high adj. and n.² and man n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., man n.¹

Etymology: < high adj. + man n.¹ Compare low man n.

historical after mid 17th cent.

A dice fixed so as to turn up high numbers, usually through being loaded or improperly spotted. Cf. high runner n. Usually in plural.Opposed to low man n.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > false or loaded

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c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. A.i^v The names of Dyce... A bale of Gordes with as many hyghe men as lowe men for passage.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pise, false dice, high men or low men.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 341 There did I learne..to make false Dice, as your High-men and your Low-men.

a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary ii. iii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XII. 243 Your high And low men are but trifles; your pois'd dye, That's ballasted with quicksilver or gold.

1799 F. Douce in Plays W. Shakespeare V. 44 High and low men were false dice, which, being chiefly made at Fulham, were thence called ‘high and low Fulhams’.

1863 G. A. Sala Strange Adventures Capt. Dangerous II. vii. 226 Gambling bullies..throwing their Highmen.

1913 F. Aydelotte Elizabethan Rogues & Vagabonds iv. 92 High men and low men were names used for various dice according to the numbers they turned up.

1985 Antiquaries Jrnl. June 453 Some dice are of the sort known in Tudor London as high men and low men and, later, as despatchers, having an aggregate of spots that is either higher or lower than it ought to be.

2001 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 8 Apr. 19 Three were called ‘high men’ and were marked only with the number four, five, and six, each repeated (no more than three surfaces of a die are visible at one time).

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	high man
释义	high mann. Brit. /ˈhʌɪ man/, U.S. /ˈhaɪ ˌmæn/ Inflections: Plural high men. Forms: see high adj. and n.² and man n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: high adj., man n.¹ Etymology: < high adj. + man n.¹ Compare low man n. historical after mid 17th cent. A dice fixed so as to turn up high numbers, usually through being loaded or improperly spotted. Cf. high runner n. Usually in plural.Opposed to low man n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > false or loaded stop-dice1540 bar1545 flat1545 gourd1545 barred dicec1555 bristle-dicec1555 fulhamc1555 graviersc1555 high manc1555 langretc1555 low manc1555 cheat1567 dice of vantage?1577 demy1591 forger1591 squarier1592 tallmen?1592 stop cater trey1605 demi-bar1606 downhill1664 high runner1670 low runner1670 doctor1688 tat1688 uphill1699 cut1711 loaded dice1771 dispatcher1798 dispatch1819 miss-out1928 c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. A.i^v The names of Dyce... A bale of Gordes with as many hyghe men as lowe men for passage. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pise, false dice, high men or low men. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 341 There did I learne..to make false Dice, as your High-men and your Low-men. a1643 W. Cartwright Ordinary ii. iii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1875) XII. 243 Your high And low men are but trifles; your pois'd dye, That's ballasted with quicksilver or gold. 1799 F. Douce in Plays W. Shakespeare V. 44 High and low men were false dice, which, being chiefly made at Fulham, were thence called ‘high and low Fulhams’. 1863 G. A. Sala Strange Adventures Capt. Dangerous II. vii. 226 Gambling bullies..throwing their Highmen. 1913 F. Aydelotte Elizabethan Rogues & Vagabonds iv. 92 High men and low men were names used for various dice according to the numbers they turned up. 1985 Antiquaries Jrnl. June 453 Some dice are of the sort known in Tudor London as high men and low men and, later, as despatchers, having an aggregate of spots that is either higher or lower than it ought to be. 2001 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 8 Apr. 19 Three were called ‘high men’ and were marked only with the number four, five, and six, each repeated (no more than three surfaces of a die are visible at one time). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1555
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