tote

plural totes

1. A tote bag.
2. A heavy burden.
3. logisticsA 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.

   2012, Chittaranjan Kole, Chandrashekhar P. Joshi, David R. Shonnard, Handbook of Bioenergy Crop Plants, page 129

4. businessThe principal handle of a handplane, for gripping the plane.

   Coordinate term: knob

present singular third person totes · participle present toting · participle past toted · past toted

1. Southern USTo carry or bear.

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

   1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig

   5 more examples

   "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?

   1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter V, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume I, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington, published 20 March 1852, →OCLC, page 64

   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.

   1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC

   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.

   2017 July 7, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, “The ambitious War For The Planet Of The Apes ends up surrendering to formula”, in The Onion AV Club

   Like many women whose relationships with their husbands have become dysfunctional, Diana used her elder son as both a stand-in and a buffer, toting him along for meetings with journalists.

   April 5 2022, Tina Brown, “How Princess Diana’s Dance With the Media Impacted William and Harry”, in Vanity Fair

   The storm has passed when I arrive at Southampton Central, but more fun is to come. The station platforms and waiting rooms are crammed with people, many toting enormous amounts of baggage as they have just come off a cruise liner.

   2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 55

present singular third person totes · participle present toting · participle past toted · past toted · alternative tot

1. To add up; to calculate a total.

   Synonyms: tote up

plural totes

1. AustraliaUKA 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,

   1892, Banjo Paterson, The Man from Ironbark

2. AustraliaUKPari-mutuel betting.