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toting

toting is the present participle and gerund of tote.

Meaning of tote

Verb (1)

tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)

  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?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 &...

Verb (2)

tote (third-person singular simple present totes, present participle toting, simple past and past participle toted)

  1. To add up; to calculate a total.
    Synonyms:
    tote up

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Phrases with toting

Questions about toting

What is toting the present participle and gerund of?
Toting is the present participle and gerund of tote.

Words near toting in the dictionary

  1. Totilo
  2. Totilos
  3. totin'
  4. Totin' Chip
  5. Totin' Chips
  6. toting
  7. toting up
  8. Totino
  9. totipalmate
  10. totipalmation
  11. totipotence

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Adapted from Wiktionary: toting (page history and authors); tote (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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