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• 1a n. Hist. in colonial Nova Scotia, one of the 100-acre parcels of land making up a surveyed division.

  • 1750  [Map of s. N.S.] Shewing the Number of Lotts in Each Division.
  • 1763  (1876)  . . . Each Lot of Land ajoyneing the harbour . . . shall frunt Eighte Rods and Run so far back as to containe one hundred acors.

• 1b n. in Upper Canada and parts of Lower Canada, one of the 200-acre parcels of land into which a surveyed concession was divided.

  See also: concession (def. 2)  

  • 1783  (1959)  [Every Township will have 25 Lots in front [and] contain 175 Lots of 125 acres.]
  • 1805  The lands are usually divided into lots of two hundred acres each, forming a complete farm.
  • 1842  These concessions are subdivided into lots of 200 acres of which there are 32 in each.
  • 1921  (1923)  . . . I have two lots of my own, paid for out and out, and you know the soil is good.

• 2 n. P.E.I., Hist. See 1904 cite.

  • 1783  (1875)  I did more: I prevented all the lots from being sold belonging to proprietors who I knew were inclined to improve their lands, and this I did by taking the debt upon myself, which was not required by the law, nor perhaps in justice to my own family.
  • 1821  (1823)  The main road passing through the remainder of lot 49, to the head of Vernon River, divides, one branch on the right; leads to Murray Harbour, through seventeen miles of wood, without a house.
  • 1904  A survey was begun by Captain Samuel Holland in 1764 and completed in 1766, by which the Island was divided into 67 lots or townships of about 20,000 acres each and granted by means of a lottery to persons . . . who were considered to have claims upon the British Government.
  • 1955  In 1765 it was surveyed by Captain Samuel Holland and divided into 67 lots or townships of 20,000 acres each.

• 3 n. any small parcel of land, especially in an urban area.

  • 1797  As an encouragement to trades men a number of lots will be leased for 900 years, subject to an annual ground rent of six percent. on the price, and ten per cent purchase money.
  • 1899  James Wilkes, as a boy, used to ride a pony across lots from the present Simpson corner to the post office, which was then east of the St. Lawrence market, the population of Toronto being then about 1,600.
  • 1912  (1914)  During the rush to Klondyke he went off seeking gold, and after travelling round in many parts of the West returned, after about fifteen years, to find his fifty-dollar lot had sold for 100,000 dollars.
  • 1966  [Advert.] Rustic 7 room ranch bungalow on 1/2 acre lot, trees galore!