tote

noun

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

   “Coordinate term: knob”

5. (Australia, British)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,”

6. (Australia, British)Pari-mutuel betting.

verb

1. (Southern-US)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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

2. To add up; to calculate a total.