Dice with a secret cavity. Those loaded with lead were called Fulhams (q.v.).
“Gourds and fullam holds,
And high and low beguile the rich and poor.”
Shakespeare: Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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