toten.1
/təʊt/, U.S. /toʊt/ Now dialect.
1. The total amount, number, or sum. Mostly in pleonastic phrase the whole tote.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > the whole or all > [noun] > the whole quantity, number, or amount
fullOE
suma1382
universitya1382
your university1385
wholea1393
amountment?a1400
wholenessa1425
hale1437
aggregatec1443
rate1472
total1557
the whole ware1563
lump1576
gross1579
totality1598
universarya1604
general1608
population1612
amount1615
totum1656
totea1772
complete1790
factorial1869
collectivity1882
a1772 Ess. from Batchelor (1773) II. 40 That this was the whole tote of his case is notoriously known.
a1777 S. Foote Cozeners (1778) iii. i. 64 My bill?..what is the tote?
a1801 R. Gall Poems & Songs (1819) 37 Where the hale tot, for fear o' skaith, Were fley'd to speak aboon their breath.
1810 J. Bentham Mem. & Corr. in Wks. (1843) X. 460 Let me have the whole tote.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 384 Our gals—the whole tote of them.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. i. iv. 25 Only myself of the whole tot was accustomed to the handling of iron.
1905 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (from Northumbld. to E. Anglia and Cornwall, with long ō).
2. Dialect and colloquial abbreviation of total abstainer (also tot). Also colloquial (originally Australian) of totalizator n.; (more generally) a lottery.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstainer
water-drinker1440
abstainerc1475
Rechabite1637
drink-watera1641
hydropotist1678
hydropot1727
teetotal1834
teetotaller1834
teetotalist1840
Washingtonian1842
Good Templar1853
teetotalleress1854
blue-ribbonist1858
nephalist1861
total abstainer1862
blue-ribbonite1867
totec1870
Templar1874
blue ribboner1878
total abstinent1882
water butt1882
white ribboner1886
non-drinker1910
pioneer1912
T.T.1922
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-maker's equipment > totalizator
totec1870
totalizator1879
totalizer1887
totalizing machine1888
machine1891
nanny-goat1961
nanny1967
c1870 Music Hall Song (Farmer) By all of his mates called the Tote.
1887 E. J. Mather Nor'ard of Dogger (1889) 239 The fishermen are all ‘totes’.
1901 Westm. Gaz. 8 Mar. 5/1 One of his audience called out: ‘Are you a ‘tot.’? ‘Yes’, the Bishop replied. ‘All right, go on, then; if you wasn't I wouldn't listen to you’.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 25 July 1/3 You..walk into the money order department and deposit the amount you would have invested on the Tote.
1926 Spectator 9 Jan. 45/2 The ‘tote’ goes steadily on and the bookies do a roaring trade secretly.
1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. ii. 113 Jack Cardigan, from his front seat, had begun explaining a thing he called the ‘tote’. It seemed to be a machine that did your betting for you.
1933 Sun (Baltimore) 3 May 14/4 (heading) Ticket a second expected of electric ‘tote’ at racing meet.
1966 Listener 27 Oct. 605/1 Further along there was a board showing the latest stock prices on Wall Street:..Zurichers watch them in much the same spirit as race-goers watch the tote.
1975 Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 495/2 The Tote also operates ‘doubles’, ‘trebles’, and ‘jack~pot’ prizes for correct forecasts.
1976 Star (Sheffield) 30 Nov. The money was raised through totes and the fund is being wound up with a final pay-out because income was not enough to keep it going.
1977 N.Z. Herald 5 Jan. ii. 8/4 The tote at Ellerslie, in line with the general trend this year, was up 22 per cent.
Compounds
C1.
tote board n.
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1950 Amer. Speech 25 304/2 A tote board is a board where odds, payoffs, time of race and numbers of winners are posted in electric lights.
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tote-man n.
tote proprietor n.
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1891 E. Kinglake Austral. at Home 74 Altogether, bookmakers, ‘tote’ proprietors, sweep promotors, in spite of occasional fines of £50 and £100..drive a roaring trade in Australia.
tote-shop n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > betting place
wager-hall1691
wagering-post1696
wager-office1723
betting-post1771
ring1775
betting room1793
betting ring1822
Tattersall1836
betting office1852
betting shop1852
betting-house1853
pool room1861
list shop1875
list house1902
tote-shop1906
silver ring1921
bookmaker1923
bookie1936
1906 Daily Chron. 3 Aug. 4/7 Nearly 2,000..entering the gambling dens or ‘tote-shops’.
tote ticket n.
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1945 Daily Herald 31 Aug. 3/4 A fraud by which a considerable sum..was obtained with forged Tote tickets at Harringay Greyhound Stadium..is thought to have been carefully planned by a gang.
1974 Times 26 Nov. 16/4 Young women were selling tote tickets through the window.
C2.
tote double n. a double with totalisator odds.
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1930 Cambr. Daily News 25 Sept. 5/7 In the Tote Double on the 2.30..the winning dividend was £10 13s. 9d.
1930 Daily Express 6 Nov. 10/3 I have any number of friends who think that the Tote double was their invention.
tote-double v.
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1930 Daily Express 6 Nov. 10/3 Every one is Tote doubling.
tote-house n. a house where a totalisator is in operation.
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1913 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 155/1 There were gaming or ‘tote’ houses by the score [in Australia].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
toten.2
/təʊt/, U.S. /toʊt/ The handle of a carpenter's plane.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > handle
tote1678
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 61 A Fore Plain. a The Tote.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 352/2 All the difference is in the Tote or Handle, which every Workman maketh according to his own Fancy.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 243.
1873 Routledge's Young Gentleman's Mag. July 503/1 The handle [of a jack plane] is called a toat or horn.
1901 J. Black Illustr. Carpenter & Builder Ser.: Home Handicrafts 10 The jack plane is used by grasping the ‘tote’, or handle, firmly with the right hand, placing the left hand on the fore part of the plane [etc.].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† toten.3
Obsolete. rare.
Of doubtful origin and meaning; recorded only in the passage quoted.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > footwear > parts of footwear > [noun] > toe
totec1400
toe1600
c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 41 His tabarde to-torne and his totez oute.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
toten.4
a. An act of carrying or transporting (Webster, 1911).
b. elliptical. = tote bag n. at Compounds below.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > carried on shoulder
shoulder-bag1912
carry bag1917
tote1959
sling-bag1965
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > carried in hand > large
tote bag1900
tote1959
1959 Sears, Roebuck Catal. Spring–Summer 68 Cowhide Bag... 2 side zip pockets in this top-zipper tote. Rayon lined.
1967 Observer 24 Dec. 15/7 A Twiggy Fashion Tote, ‘for shopping and surfing’.
1979 Whig-Standard (Kingston, Ont.) 5 Apr. 24/6 Remember that an open bag, like a tote may make access to its contents easier for you, but it also means access is easier for a pickpocket.
Compounds
tote bag n. a large hand-bag or shoulder-bag.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > carried in hand > large
tote bag1900
tote1959
1900 in Notes & Queries (1904) 27 Aug. 162/1 The Watson Tote Bag..best thing..for carrying coat, camera,..lunch, &c.
1969 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 Sept. 2/6 Tote Bags—Great for knitting supplies, shopping.
1982 M. Millar Mermaid x. 108 A girl entered, carrying an oversized canvas tote bag with the name Gretchen printed on it.
tote box n. a portable box for small items.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > [noun] > for carrying things in
dropbox1797
carryall1877
tote box1917
toter1970
1917 Machinery (N.Y.) July 957/1 The New Britain Machine Co...makes these tote boxes of steel, and they are designed in such a way that they may be stacked up to economize in floor space.
1951 Urquhart & Boyle Materials Handling Case Bk. 7/1 If the parts are small and are handled in a tote box, then each operator must: 1. Position the totebox of pieces to be worked [etc.].
1966 Guardian 18 Apr. 6/1 Tote boxes are also available with cushion tops and back cushions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
totev.
/təʊt/, U.S. /toʊt/ colloquial (originally U.S.).
1. transitive. To carry as a burden or load; to transport, esp. supplies to, or timber, etc. from, a logging-camp or the like. Also, to wear or carry regularly as part of one's equipment; to take (a person) with one; to tote fair, to carry one's fair share; figurative to act or deal fairly or honestly.For catena of quots. see Mr. A. Matthews in Notes & Queries 10th Ser. II. 161, and Thornton Amer. Gloss. s.v.
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the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > carry
carryc1400
fure1487
port1566
porter1609
tote1677
hug1788
to carry me (also you, it, etc.) (and) go1837
pack1846
hump1853
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)] > convey by carrying (of person)
carryc1400
to take up1576
tote1677
porter1791
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > transport or convey by carrying [verb (transitive)] > convey by carrying (of person) > as part of one's equipment
to carry about1496
tote1823
pack1846
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
to bear (a person) company (also fellowship, etc.)c1225
mella1300
fellowshipa1382
companya1400
accompany1461
to keep company (with)1502
encompanya1513
to keep (a person) company1517
to take repast1517
assist1553
to take up with1570
rempare1581
to go along with1588
amate1590
bear1590
to fall in1593
consort1598
second1600
to walk (also travel) in the way with1611
comitate1632
associate1644
enhaunt1658
join1713
assort1823
sit1828
companionize1870
to take tea with1888
to knock about with1915
tote1977
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1677 Grievances of Glouc. Co., Va. (Col. Office Rec., P.R.O. 5/1371) 326 They [Governor's out-guard] were by Beverly comanded to goe to work, fall trees and mawle and toat rails, which many..refusing to doe, he presently disarm'd them.
1769 Boston Gaz. 7 Aug. 3/2 The next Morning he was toated on board the Rippon, in a Canoe..or some other small boat.
1781 J. Witherspoon Wks. (1802) IV. 470 Tot is used for carry, in some of the southern states.
1803 J. Davis Trav. U.S.A. 389 I..cart all the wood, tote the wheat to the mill. Note, Tote is the American for to carry.
1807 W. Irving Life & Lett. (1864) I. 189 At Baltimore I made a stay of two days, during which I was toted about town.
1809 Monthly Anthology VII. 264 Tote is marked by Mr. Webster ‘Virg.’ But we believe it a native vulgarism of Massachusetts.
1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 38 (Arnold's Exped. 1775) We slided glibly along, over passages where a few days previously, we had toted our canoes.
1823 J. A. Quitman in J. F. H. Claiborne Life Quitman (1860) I. 85 The belles..‘tote’ their fans with the air of Spanish señoritas.
1828 J. Hall in Western Souvenir for 1829 269 This is a poor shooting-iron..it might do for young men to ‘tote’ in a settlement, but it is of no use in the woods.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. vii. 84 Is that ar man going to tote them bar'ls over to-night?
1866 C. H. Smith Bill Arp, so Called 147 I don't think you tote fair.
1883 A. Forbes in Contemp. Rev. Oct. 605 His lordship and the lady had toted the trunk on to a cart.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 117 The Government Bullock Train toted its load.
1896 Cycl. Rev. Current Hist. (U.S.) 6 865 The trust maintained a regular force of inspectors to keep all the members of the pool ‘toting fair’.
1909 R. Parrish My Lady of South viii. 95 Thar warn't many Danielses left able ter tote a gun.
1909 H. G. Wells Tono-Bungay (U.K. ed.) ii. iii. 194 The old merchant used to tote about commodities.
1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid iv. 89 One who, men say, totes round his home-gods Everywhere.
1975 Nation 20 Dec. 659/1 Others wear official-looking uniforms and tote service revolvers.
1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds vi. 110 He toted the infants with easy familiarity.
1979 Chatelaine (Canada) Jan. 24/3 I toted a canvas bag over one shoulder.
1983 E. Reveley In Good Faith iii. 59 They still tote the two original evangelists around with them but I think that's mostly so's they can keep getting money from the mother church.
2. U.S. colloquial. to tote tales: to carry tales.
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1901 W. N. Harben Westerfelt ii. 27 I never was much of a hand to tote tales.
Compounds
C1. The verb-stem in combination with a noun; as tote-pole, tote-team, tote-wagon.
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1895 F. A. C. Emerson in Cent. Mag. July 478/2 One might visit every one of the hundreds of logging camps [in Maine]..and he would find each one furnished with its separate ‘tote road’, ‘tote team’ and ‘toter’.
C2.
tote-load n. (see quot. 1859).
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1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) Tote-load, as much as one can carry. Southern.
tote-road n. a rough temporary road for conveying goods to or from a settlement, camp, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > rough or temporary
tote-roada1862
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 222 The Indian was greatly surprised that we should have taken what he called a ‘tow’ (i.e. tote or toting or supply) road, instead of a carry path.
1887 M. Roberts Western Avernus 71 On this ‘toat’ or freight-road the wagons went east during one part of the day and west during the other.
Derivatives
ˈtoting n.
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the world > movement > transference > [noun] > conveying or transporting > action of carrying
carryinga1382
bearing?a1425
vectiona1623
totinga1862
carry1880
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance by carrying > [noun] > by a person
porterage1611
portering1736
porterage1764
coalbacking1849
totinga1862
a1862Toting [see tote-road n. at Compounds 2].
1911 Blackwood's Mag. Sept. 362/2 So accustomed are some of them to this ‘toting’ of loads.
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