lot

noun12

1. •
   a great amount or number

   • win the whole lot (of money); i.e. jackpot
2. •
   A separate, appropriated portion; a quantized, subdivided set consisting a whole.

   • The Lord divided the land to the tribes, each according to his lot.
3. •
   One or more items auctioned or sold as a unit, separate from other items.

   • This is an important lot. Very sorry, but we can't go on with the selling until we know more where we are. — 1927
4. •
   A distinct portion or plot of land, usually smaller than a field.

   • The defendants leased a house and lot, in the City of New-York — 1820
5. •
   All members of a set; everything.

   • The table was loaded with food, but by evening there was nothing but crumbs; we had eaten the lot.
   • If I were in charge, I'd fire the lot of them.
6. •
   (informal) A number of people taken collectively.

   • you lot
7. •
   The part, or fate, that falls to one, as it were, by chance, or without one's planning.

   • O visions ill foreseen! Each day's lot's / Enough to bear. — 1667
8. •
   Anything (as a die, pebble, ball, or slip of paper) used in determining a question by chance, or without human choice or will.

   • to cast lots
   • to draw lots
9. •
   Allotment; lottery.

   • Archons served only for one year and, since 487/6, they were chosen by lot. Generals, on the other hand, were chosen by direct election and could be reelected without limit. — 1990
10. •
    That which happens without human design or forethought.

    • But save my life, which lot before your foot doth lay. — 1590
11. •
    A prize in a lottery.

    • In the lottery[…] Sir R. Haddock one of the Commissrs of the Navy had the greatest lot, £3000 ; my coachman £ 40 — 1694
12. •
    (historical) An old unit of weight used in many European countries from the Middle Ages, often defined as 1/30 or 1/32 of a (local) pound.

verb2

1. •
   (old-fashioned) 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
2. •
   (informal, old-fashioned) To count or reckon (on or upon).

noun1

1. •
   A department of Occitania, France. Capital: Cahors (INSEE code 46).