单词 | lot-layer |
释义 | > as lemmaslot-layer lot-layer n. North American (historical after early 18th cent.) an official who apportions plots of land to settlers; cf. lotter n. 1. ΚΠ 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. < as lemmas |
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