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Gourd. World English Historical Dictionary

Gourd. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Gourd subs. (old).—False dice with a cavity within, which in FULHAMS (q.v.) was filled with lead to give a bias. See also HIGH-MEN and LOW-MEN.

1   1544.  ASCHAM, Toxophilus. What false dyse use they? as dyse stopped with quicksilver and heares, dyse of vauntage, flaues, GOURDS, to chop and chaunge when they liste.

2   1596.  SHAKESPEARE, Merry Wives of Windsor, i. 3.          Pist.  Let vultures gripe thy guts! for GOURD and fullam holds, And high and low beguiles the rich and poor.

3   1616.  BEAUMONT and FLETCHER, The Scornful Lady, iv.        And thy dry bones can reach at nothing now But GOURDS or nine-pins; pray go fetch a trencher, go.

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