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plural tots
A small child. quotations examples
Death conditioning begins at eighteen months. Every tot spends two mornings a week in a Hospital for the Dying. All the best toys are kept there, and they get chocolate cream on death days.
1932, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, London: Chatto & Windus
A measure of spirits, especially rum. quotations examples
Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.
1897, Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa
And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.
1916, Siegfried Sassoon, The Working Party
Ellipsis of tater tot. examples
(Barbados) A small cup, usually made of tin. examples
(UK, dialect, obsolete) A foolish fellow. quotations
Whoe answeared like a toute, or a maddman, as he was, that he was for the Kinge.
a. 1660, A Contemporary History Of Affairs In Ireland
third-person singular simple present tots, present participle totting, simple past and past participle totted
To sum or total. quotations examples
There are, of course, many ways to proceed from here, the most likely being that you, as an experienced tradesman, would simply know what these amounts come to (in terms of groups of ten) and can tot them up in your head.
2017, Paul Lockhart, Arithmetic
(UK, historical) To mark (a debt) with the word tot (Latin for "so much"), indicating that it was good or collectible for the amount specified.
A total, an addition of a long column of figures. examples