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Brewer's: Dole-fish
The share of fish allotted to each one of a company of fishermen in a catch. Dole = the part dealt to anyone. (Anglo-Saxon, dál or dæl, from the verb dael-an, to divide into parta.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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