Toted vs Coted - What's the difference?
toted | coted |
(tote)
To carry or bear.
*, chapter=8
, title= To add up; to calculate a total.
(British) A pari-mutuel machine; a totalizator
*1892 , Banjo Paterson,
*:He was a humorist of note and keen at repartee,
*:He laid the odds and kept a "tote ", whatever that may be,
(cote)
A cottage or hut.
A small structure built to contain domesticated animals such as sheep, pigs or pigeons.
* Milton
(obsolete) To quote.
To go side by side with; hence, to pass by; to outrun and get before.
* Shakespeare
* 1825 , , The Talisman , A. and C. Black (1868), 37:
As verbs the difference between toted and coted
is that toted is (tote) while coted is (cote).toted
English
Verb
(head)tote
English
(wikipedia tote)Etymology 1
Verb
(tot)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=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.}}
Etymology 2
Shortening of (total), with e to distinguish from (tot) in writingAlternative forms
* totVerb
(tot)Etymology 3
Shortening of (totalizator)Noun
(en noun)coted
English
Verb
(head)cote
English
Etymology 1
From the (etyl) cote, the feminine form of . Cognate to Dutch kot.Noun
(en noun)- Watching where shepherds pen their flocks, at eve, / In hurdled cotes .
Synonyms
* shedEtymology 2
See quote.Verb
(cot)- (Udall)
Etymology 3
Probably related to (etyl) .Verb
(cot)- A dog cotes a hare.
- (Drayton)
- We coted them on the way, and hither are they coming.
- [...]strength to pull down a bull——swiftness to cote an antelope.
