tote

Noun

tote (plural totes)

1. A bag, specifically a tote bag.
2. A heavy burden.

Verb

tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)

1. To carry or bear.
   • 2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club‎:

     In stretches, this new Apes is an audacious, idiosyncratic piece of blockbuster filmmaking: a mix of Pixar, revenge Westerns, and Apocalypse Now, told almost entirely from the point-of-view of a posse of gun-toting, super-evolved apes as they roam the snowy Sierra Nevada foothills of the post-apocalyptic future, accompanied by a mute human girl, and bear witness to the strange cruelty of man.

   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     We toted in the wood and got the fire going nice and comfortable. Lord James still set in one of the chairs and Applegate had cabbaged the other and was hugging the stove.

   to tote a child over a stream

Alternative forms

• tot

Verb

tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)

1. To add up; to calculate a total.

Noun

tote (plural totes)

1. (Britain) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator
   • 1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark

     He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,

     He laid the odds and kept a "tote", whatever that may be,

Related terms

• tota (“whole, entire”)
• totala (“total”)
• totale (“totally”)
• entote (“ensemble, altogether, on the whole, in all, in a body, bodily, overall”)

Alternative forms

• tot
• toete, toet

Descendants

• Dutch: tot
• Limburgish: tót