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means A small plot of public land rented out, typically to a private individual, for growing vegetables, fruit, or flowers.

from From 'allot' — to divide into lots or shares — rooted in Old French 'aloter', built from 'a-' (to) plus 'lot' (a share, portion). 'Lot' itself traces back to Germanic roots tied to casting objects to decide a division, the ancestor of drawing lots. Allotments as a British institution took shape in the 1800s and 1900s, when Parliament passed acts requiring local authorities to provide land so the poor and landless could grow their own food — a patch doled out, literally, as your allotted share of earth.