highmen

Noun

highman (plural highmen)

1. A man of rank, especially a high rank; a superior.
   • If not riding for life, that he is riding for immortality; and as the hero may perchance feel (for even a highman may feel like a hero), when he willingly throws away his existence in the hope of earning a glorious name, […]1834, The New sporting magazine, page 88
2. (archaic, slang) A loaded die that yields high numbers.
   • "He had a couple of bales of crooked dice, a highman and a lowman and one with a bristle on the pip, but he hasn't the way of using them properly yet. […]"2012, P F Chisholm, A Famine of Horses