Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) a ring; a glove.

c.1566		Harman Caveat for Common Cursetours in Viles & Furnivall (1907) 82: a fambling chete a rynge on thy hand.
1592		Groundworke of Conny-catching n.p.: [as cit. c.1566].
1608		Dekker Lanthorne and Candle-Light Ch. 1: Fambles are Hands and thereupon a Ring is called a Fambling chete.
1610		Rowlands Martin Mark-all 42: My bong, my lowre, & fambling cheates / Shall be at thy command.
1637		Dekker Canters Dict. Eng. Villainies (8th edn).
1648		Dekker Canters Dict. Eng. Villainies (9th edn).
1665		Head Eng. Rogue I 49: Famble chears [sic], Rings or Gloves.
1674		Head Canting Academy (2nd edn).
1688		R. Holme Academy of Armory Ch. iii item 68c: Canting Terms used by Beggars, Vagabonds, Cheaters, Cripples and Bedlams. [...] Fambling cheat, a Ring.
1694		J. Dunton Ladies’ Dict. n.p.: Famble-cheats, rings or gloves.
c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Famble-cheats c. Gold-rings.
1719		A. Smith Lives of Most Notorious Highway-men, etc. (1926) 205: [...] Famble-cheats, gold rings, or gloves.
1725		New Canting Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict. [as cit. c.1698].
1741		Canting Academy, or the Pedlar’s-French Dict. 115: Rings or Gloves Fam Cheats.
1754		Scoundrel’s Dict. 18: Rings or Gloves – Famble-cheats.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Famble cheats, rings or gloves.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum [as cit. 1785].