To get; to get a share of; to lay a claim to.
“Where is the laird or belted knight
That best deserves to faʹ that?”
Burns: Whom Will Ye Send, stanza i.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.