Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Tote

Tote , transitive verb

[Said to be of African origin.]

To carry or bear; as, to tote a child over a stream; to tote a gun on one's hip; -- a colloquial word originating in the Southern States, and used there esp. by negroes, now common throughout the U. S.

Tote , noun

[Latin totum, from totus all, whole.]

The entire body, or all; as, the whole tote. [Colloquial]