tote

Plural: totes

Noun

a capacious bag or basket
A tote bag.
A heavy burden.
A kind of plastic box used for transporting goods.
A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator.
Pari-mutuel betting.

Verb

Verb Forms: toted, toting, totes

To carry or transport, especially by hand.
carry with difficulty
To carry or bear.
To add up; to calculate a total.

Examples

I always TOTE my premium Scrabble set to tournaments, never settling for less.

Origin / Etymology

Probably from Middle Low German tûte, tǖte (“horn, conical paper bag”), whence also German Tute (“horn, bugle”) and German Tüte (“bag, paper bag”). Compare also Scots tout (“a drinking vessel”), Saterland Frisian Tüütje (“paper bag”), West Frisian tút (“spout, toot, kiss”), Dutch tuit (“horn, spout, nozzle”), Swedish tuta (“to honk”), Danish tud (“spout, nozzle”), Old Norse tútna (“to be blown up”). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Germanic *tut(t)- (“to stick out, protrude”).

Synonyms

carryall, holdall, lug, tote bag, tug

Scrabble Score: 4

tote: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
tote: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
tote: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 4

tote: valid Words With Friends Word