lotting

Verb

lot (third-person singular simple present lots, present participle lotting, simple past and past participle lotted)

1. (dated, transitive) 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.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861
2. (US, dated, informal) To count or reckon (on or upon).

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