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Tote vs Stote - What's the difference?

tote | stote |

As nouns the difference between tote and stote

is that tote is or tote can be cadaver; corpse (female dead person) while stote is .

tote

English

(wikipedia tote)

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A bag, specifically a tote bag.
  • A heavy burden.

    • Verb

    (tot)
  • To carry or bear.
  • *, chapter=8
    • , title= 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 writing

    Alternative forms

    * tot

    Verb

    (tot)
  • To add up; to calculate a total.

    • Etymology 3

    Shortening of (totalizator)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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,

    • stote

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
    • (Webster 1913) ----