WordNet
drawing lots
n. making a chance decision by using lots (straws or pebbles etc.) that are thrown or drawn [syn: casting lots, sortition]
Usage examples of "drawing lots".
As for us, we were three days without anything to eat or drink, so that we began to think of drawing lots who should feed the rest, when we saw La Gironde.
They would be drawing lots for first chance to spit him like a pig.
The choosing of the named Borrible in such a case will be by drawing lots.