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Tote

//toʊt//

Definitions

nountotes

1
A tote bag.
2
A heavy burden.
3
A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee, He laid the odds and kept a "tote", whatever that may be,

verbtotes · toting · toted

1
To carry or bear.
"Well, old man!" said Aunt Chloe. "why don't you go, too? Will you wait to be toted down river, where they kill niggers with hard work and starving?
2
To add up; to calculate a total.

Word Origin

Possibly from Middle Low German tûte, tǖte (“horn, conical paper bag”), whence also German Tute (“horn, bugle”) and German Tüte (“bag, paper bag”). Compare also Scots tout (“a drinking vessel”), Sater...

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