Tote

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /təʊt/
• US IPA: /toÊŠt/
• Rhymes: -əʊt

Full definition of tote

Noun

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

Verb

1. To carry or bear.
• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, Mr. Pratt's Patients Chapter 8, 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.
2. to tote a child over a stream

Shortening of total, with e to distinguish from tot in writing

Alternative forms

• tot

Verb

1. To add up; to calculate a total.

Shortening of totalizator

Noun

1. (British) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator
• 1892, Banjo Paterson, He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,He laid the odds and kept a "tote", whatever that may be,