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lotter

American  
[laht-er] / ˈlɑt ər /

noun

plural

lotters

  1. a person who divides goods or land up into lots.

  2. Scot., History/Historical. a person who rents or works on a plot of land.

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As a high-school sand lotter, he was hot enough to catch the eye of a professional baseball scout, and in 1916, at 20, he went off to play third base with the Duluth White Sox.

From Time Magazine Archive

So I gets a lotter green paint and I paints her stem to stern, and I tell yer she looked A1.

From The Railway Children by Nesbit, E. (Edith)

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