A division, a portion, a share, a part, a piece.
We gave three deals of grain in tribute to the king.
An act of dealing or sharing out.
Wood that is easy to saw (from conifers such as pine or fir).
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 86, Some Houses were […] entirely lock’d up, the Doors padlockt, the Windows and Doors having Deal Boards nail’d over them,
To distribute among a number of recipients, to give out as one’s portion or share.
The fighting is over; now we deal out the spoils of victory.
Made of deal.
A plain deal table
A coastal town and civil parish with a town council in Dover district, Kent, England (OS grid ref TR3752).
A borough on the Jersey Shore, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States, named after the Kentish town.
An unincorporated community near Meyersdale, Somerset County, Pennsylvania, United States.
From Middle English delen, from Old English dǣlan (“to divide, part”), from Proto-West Germanic *dailijan, from Proto-Germanic *dailijaną (“to divide, part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰail- (“...
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To administer or give out, as in small portions.
"Away, proud woman!" said the Lady; "who ever knew so well as thou to deal the deepest wounds under the pretence of kindness and courtesy?"
To take action with regard to someone or something.