单词 | outlot |
释义 | outlotn. U.S. (originally North American). Now chiefly historical. A lot or piece of ground situated outside a town or other area. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > land in or beside town town-sidea1500 outlot1643 town belt1843 1643 Rec. Colony & Plantation New Haven (1857) I. 94 Mris Eldreds out lotts. 1774 in Amer. Archives (1837) 4th Ser. I. 278 An out lot, of ten acres, contiguous to the town, shall be laid off for such as desire the same at an easy rent. 1815 D. Drake Nat. & Statist. View Cincinnati iii. 130 In addition to these original owners, several persons have since divided out-lots, or tracts adjoining to the first town plat. 1886 Z. F. Smith Hist. Kentucky 29 [They gave] to each man a half-acre lot and a ten-acre outlot. 1948 E. N. Dick Dixie Frontier 148 Each settler could hold one or more ‘in lots’ or building plots on the townsite and one or more ‘out lots’ or farming areas. 1998 Bloomington (Indiana) Herald-Times 3 Aug. a7/4 The restaurant would be the first outlot for the 140-acre development. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1643 |
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