an awful lot

: extremely disagreeable or objectionable

: exceedingly great

: inspiring awe

: very, extremely

: an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance

: the use of lots as a means of deciding something

: the resulting choice

: allot, apportion

: to form or divide into lots

: a nephew of Abraham who according to the account in Genesis escaped from the doomed city of Sodom with his wife who turned into a pillar of salt when she looked back