I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get alot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out.
A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.
The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.
1667,John Milton, “Book XI”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
O visions ill foreseen! Each day'slot's / Enough to bear.
[…] as Jones alone was discovered, the poor lad bore not only the whole smart, but the whole blame; both which fell again to hislot on the following occasion.
1990:Donald Kagan,Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, chapter 2: “Politician”, page 40 (Guild Publishing;CN 2239)
Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen bylot. Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit.
(definite,the lot) All members of a set;everything.
The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eatenthe lot.
Sometimes the contractor wouldlot 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.
“lot” inBalinese–Indonesian Dictionary[Kamus Bahasa Bali–Indonesia], Denpasar, Indonesia: The Linguistic Center of Bali Province [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Bali].
To encourage the sales of three-roomers, which are the most difficult to sell, [they] reserved an entire batch of products (flats) for customers who returned after [the sales of]Hemera.
2016,于日辰,倫敦金之《潛龍勿用》 [Lon Don Gold 2], Hong Kong:點子出版,→ISBN,page193:
^Strand, Richard F. (2016), “l′ot”, inNûristânî Etymological Lexicon[1]
Jakob Halfmann (2023)Lād "law": a Bactrian loanword in the Nuristani languages, inBulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, United Kingdom, page 1
According toSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990),lot is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 59 times in scientific texts, 21 times in news, 4 times in essays, 10 times in fiction, and 8 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 102 times, making it the 618th most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.[6]
^Bańkowski, Andrzej (2000), “lot”, inEtymologiczny słownik języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish)
^Boryś, Wiesław (2005), “lecieć”, inSłownik etymologiczny języka polskiego (in Polish), Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie,→ISBN
^Mańczak, Witold (2017), “lot”, inPolski słownik etymologiczny (in Polish), Kraków: Polska Akademia Umiejętności,→ISBN
^Sławski, Franciszek (1958-1965), “lot”, inJan Safarewicz, Andrzej Siudut, editors,Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), Kraków: Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego
^Ida Kurcz (1990), “lot”, inSłownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language] (in Polish), volume 1, Kraków; Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page222
Renata Bronikowska (21.04.2016), “LOT”, inElektroniczny Słownik Języka Polskiego XVII i XVIII Wieku [Electronic Dictionary of the Polish Language of the XVII and XVIII Century]
^MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “lot”, inAn Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language[2], Stirling,→ISBN
^Oftedal, M. (1956),A linguistic survey of the Gaelic dialects of Scotland, Vol. III: The Gaelic of Leurbost, Isle of Lewis, Oslo: Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap
