fulham

plural fulhams

1. UKalternativearchaicslangAlternative form of fullam (“loaded die”).

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   “Cards may be more agreeable,” said Captain Colepepper; “and, for knowing your company, here is honest old Pillory will tell you Jack Colepepper plays as truly on the square as e’er a man that trowled a die–Men talk of high and low dice, Fulhams and bristles, topping, knapping, slurring, stabbing, and a hundred ways of rooking besides; but broil me like a rasher of bacon, if I could ever learn the trick on ‘em!”

   1822, Sir Walter Scott, The Fortunes of Nigel

2. UKalternativearchaicbroadlycolloquialAlternative form of fullam (“sham”).

   As one cut out to pass your tricks on, / With fulhams of poetic fiction

   c. 1660–1680, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part II, canto 1

1. An area in southwestern London, England, on the north side of the River Thames.

   There were only four in the starting XIs as Sunderland were beaten 1-0 by Jol's side – Jack Colback and Adam Johnson for Sunderland and Kieran Richardson and Steve Sidwell for Fulham – but Jol's shrug was one of resignation rather than indifference.

   2013 August 20, Louise Taylor, “English talent gets left behind as Premier League keeps importing”, in The Guardian

2. A locality in the Shire of Wellington, south eastern Victoria, Australia.