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Definition of Drawing lots
1. Noun. Making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drawing Lots
Literary usage of Drawing lots
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by John Beauchamp Jones (1866)
"BB" The clerks are drawing lots; one-half being ordered to the trenches. Of two
drawn in this bureau (out of five) one is peremptorily ordered by the ..."
2. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to St. Luke by Alfred Plummer (1896)
"ing the drawing lots for offering the incense was the third and chief of a series
of drawings, four in all ; in the evening it was the only one. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by John Scott Eldon, Great Britain Court of Chancery (1822)
"... and if, upon any of the days appointed for drawing lots, the full number of
fifteen boys, qualified as aforesaid, should not become candidates, ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery by Great Britain Court of Chancery, John Scott Eldon (1822)
"... and if, upon any of the days appointed for drawing lots, the full number of
fifteen boys, qualified as aforesaid, should not become candidates, ..."
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