what is a tote
tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted) To carry or bear. 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients: 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. to tote a child over a streamâ.