On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 2:07 PM John McFarlane via Lib-Ext <lib-ext@lists.isocpp.org> wrote:

Lot is a shorter word for allotment. To allot is to...

1. (transitive) To distribute or apportion by (or as if by) lot.
2. (transitive) To assign or designate as a task or for a purpose.

IIRC, someone once pointed out that colony is -- or almost is -- an allocator. Any ground near there we haven't covered?

"parcel" .. https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parcel