allottery

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noun

An allotment, a portion, an allocation.

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Meanings

nounallottery (plural allotteries)

plural allotteries

  1. obsoleteAn allotment, a portion, an allocation.

    [A]llow me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or give me the poor allottery my father left me by testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes.

    c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 60-63

Origin

From allot + -ery.

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