Obs. A kind of false die.
c. 1550. Dice-Play, A j b. A bale of Langretes contrary to the vantage. Ibid., C j. A well fauored die that semeth good & square: yet is the forhed longer on the cater and tray, then any other way, and therfore holdeth the name of a langret.
1591. Greene, Disc. Coosnage (1859), 11. The Chetor with a langret, cut contrarie to the vantage, wil cros-bite a bard cater tray.
1600. Rowlands, Lett. Humours Blood, iii. 59. His Langrets, with his Hie men, and his low, Are ready what his pleasure is to throw.
