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plural langrets
- obsoleteA kind of loaded die.
If I throw out with him, Hell rot him for a false die. But ’tis not such a cast shall cast away all my fortune. I have a langret in my purse shall cross-bite for me i’ the end and win me all, howsoe’er the Demons cog against me.
1922, E[ric] R[ücker] Eddison, chapter 17, in The Worm Ouroboros: A Romance, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC1 more example
Captaine, you perceiue how neere both of vs are driuen, 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 will not affoord a man his dinner, some other means must be inuented to preuent imminent extremitie.
1594, Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller
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