Brewer's: Deal

A portion. “A tenth deal of flour.” (Exodus xxix. 40.) (German, theil; Anglo-Saxon, dael verb, daelan, to share; Irish, dail; English, dole.)

To deal the cards
is to give each his dole or portion.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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