Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A team which is used to haul or ‘tote’ supplies to a logging-camp.
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Examples
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The setting sun shone weak and coppery above the pines as the big four-horse tote-team dashed with a flourish into the wide clearing of the new camp on upper Blood River.
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He had walked in ahead of the tote-team late one evening in the autumn, after the Rough Red and his devils had been at work a fortnight.
Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Stewart Edward White 1909
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"I guess we'll stick to our own tote-team as usual, Connick," said another in the party, jerking his thumb at the muddy buckboard that was waiting.
The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900
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Parker spent all that day in sober thought, and then, forming his resolution, took passage on the first tote-team that went floundering through toward Sunkhaze.
The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900
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He ordered the driver of the tote-team to whip up and rode away toward
The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900
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Therefore, whenever he sent a messenger to town or a man down the line with a tote-team for goods, he scrawled on his back with a piece of chalk the peculiar hieroglyph of crosses and circles that made up the Gideon Ward
The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900
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"Was there a tall stranger come up on the tote-team two weeks or so ago?" asked the postmaster.
The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900
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When he heard that Col. Gideon Ward was fifty miles up the West Branch, looking after a timber operation on Number 8, Range 23, he borrowed leggings, shoe-pacs and an overcoat and hastened on by means of a tote-team.
The Rainy Day Railroad War Holman Day 1900
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