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单词 lot-layer
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lot-layer
lot-layer n. North American (historical after early 18th cent.) an official who apportions plots of land to settlers; cf. lotter n. 1.
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1636 Ipswich (Mass.) Rec. 26 Feb. Appointed to assist the lott Layers in laying out Mr. Dudley's..farmes.
1723 in Coll. New Hampsh. Hist. Soc. (1863) VII. 349 Town-officers, consisting of a clerk, three selectmen, three lot-layers, and a constable.
1897 E. A. Bowen Lineage of Bowens of Woodstock, Conn. App. 202 He was present at the first meeting of the proprietors of the town, and was then chosen a ‘lot-layer’ and one of a committee to confirm grants of land.
2008 R. C. Harris Reluctant Land vii. 165 It would hire the agents to negotiate the terms of a land grant and, in some cases, a lot-layer to survey it.
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