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tote

noun
/təʊt/UK/toʊt/US

Etymology

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 (“drinking vessel”), Saterland Frisian Tüütje (“paper bag”), West Frisian tút (“spout, toot, kiss”), Dutch tuit (“horn, spout, nozzle”), Danish tud (“spout, nozzle”), Faroese strútur (“spout”), Icelandic stútur (“spout”), Norwegian and Swedish tut (“spout”), Old Norse tútna (“to be blown up”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tut(t)- (“to stick out, protrude”). Alternatively, from a Bantu language; compare Kongo tota (“to pick up”), Kimbundu tuta (“to carry, load”), Swahili tuta (“to pile, carry”).

  1. derived from *tut(t)-✻
  2. borrowed from tûte

Definitions

  1. A tote bag.

  2. A heavy burden.

  3. A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.

    • They can be used for palleted bags, totes, or bales and can also be used to transport large logs.
  4. ›+ 5 more definitions

    1. The principal handle of a handplane, for gripping the plane.

      • Coordinate term: knob

    2. 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?
      • 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.
      • It took ten pallbearers to carry her coffin. There was a picture of them toting it in one of the tabloids.

    3. To add up

      To add up; to calculate a total.

    4. A pari-mutuel machine

      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,

    5. Pari-mutuel betting.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA