WordNet
n. making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn [syn: drawing lots, sortition]
Wikipedia
Casting lots may refer to:
- Sortition, the casting or drawing of lots to make a fair form of selection
- Cleromancy, the casting or drawing of lots as a form of divination
Usage examples of "casting lots".
At last, however, the Spawn had finished their gruesome repast and then had resumed quarreling and cursing, casting lots, shoving one another, bickering.
Yet the gods had not finished casting lots for Cyric's future, or the story may have ended there.
The others shouted their approval and three of them began casting lots for the next turn.
And there was Yockerbow, more from courtesy than choice, alone with Barratong at the prow, while the rest of the crew amused themselves with a game that involved casting lots.
This decision was reached by casting lots, which meant that Fifer Bob was cast from the cart lots of times, until he finally got tired of running after it, only to be dumped off again, and agreed to undertake the task.
Long before evening they had an engineer from the next township at work upon it, and they were casting lots among the seventeen picked men who wanted to take it for its first flight.