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c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Ciiii 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.

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. C The dice of late are growen as melancholy as a dog, high men and low men both prosper alike, langrets, fullams, and all the whole fellowshippe of them.

1605 London Prodigall i. i Two bale of false dice, videlicet, high men and low men, fulloms..and other bones of function.

1606 No-body & Some-body sig. G3^v Those are called high Fulloms.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) i. iii. 80 Let Vultures gripe thy guts: for gourd, and Fullam holds: & high and low beguiles the rich & poore. View more context for this quotation

1653 J. Cleveland Char. Diurnal-maker 6 Now a Scotch mans tongue runs high Fullams, there is a Cheat in his Ideom.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 46 One cut out to pass your tricks on, With Fulhams of Poetique fiction.

1674 C. Cotton Compl. Gamester 12 This they do by false Dice, as High-Fullams 4, 5, 6. Low-Fullams 1, 2, 3.

1711 J. Puckle Club 21 At dice they have The Doctors, the fulloms.

1714 T. Lucas Mem. Most Famous Gamesters & Sharpers 27 Major Clancy was a very great Sharper at most Games, in which Dice are us'd, and to this end he never went without Fullums in his Pocket.

1801 Sporting Mag. 18 100 A bale of fulhams.

1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xxx. 316 There is no loading of the dice, or throwing of fulhams.

1913 W. S. Walsh Handy Bk. Curious Information 293 In England cogged dice were known by the name of fulhams, or fullams.

1965 M. G. Bulmer Princ. Statistics ii. 18 Such dice were called barred quater-treys (other varieties were fullams, loaded with lead, and high- and low-men, which were incorrectly numbered.

2000 J. Kacirk Word Museum 78 Those [dice] made to throw the high numbers, from five to twelve, were called high fulhams and those to throw the low numbers, the low fulhams.