lotted
- 1Simple past and past participle of lot.
They lotted the donated goods into batches for easier bidding.
Seized estates were lotted and numbered ahead of the public auction.
Note
The past form of a dated verb, spelled with a doubled t. One form serves as both past tense and past participle: they lotted the goods, and the goods were lotted. The verb has two uses. The first means dividing things into portions. The second is a US informal habit of lotting on or upon something, meaning counting on it. The same spelling also stands as the adjective meaning "allotted".
- 2Distributed or determined by the drawing of lots; assigned as an allotted share.
The villagers farmed their lotted strips in the open fields.
Disputes arose over the lotted boundaries between neighboring plots.
Similarassigned, allocated, apportioned
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Origin
Formed from "lot" combined with the suffix "-ed".