A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.
a lot of stationery
One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.
To allot; to sort; to apportion.
Sometimes the contractor would lot the work out to some sub-contractor, and he, after the men had worked for a month, would run away, and we should never see the colour of his money.
A nephew of Abraham in the Bible and Quran.
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
A male given name from Hebrew of biblical origin; rare today.
From Middle English lot, from Old English hlot (“portion, choice, decision”), from Proto-West Germanic *hlut, from Proto-Germanic *hlutą. Cognate with North Frisian lod, Saterland Frisian Lot, West Fr...
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To count or reckon (on or upon).
A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Cahors (INSEE code 46).