toter

From tote +‎ -er.

• Rhymes: -əʊtə(ɹ)

toter (plural toters)

1. One who totes or carries something.
   • 1633 (first performance), Ben Jonson, “A Tale of a Tub. A Comedy […]”, in The Works of Beniamin Jonson, […] (Third Folio), London: […] Thomas Hodgkin, for H[enry] Herringman, E. Brewster, T. Bassett, R[ichard] Chiswell, M. Wotton, G. Conyers, published 1692, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     His name was Vadian, and a cunning toter

   • 2004, Steve Ward, Holy Enigma!, page 31:

     Bible toters tend to carry the book around as a symbol of sanctity.

   • 2009 June 26, “The Fast-Draw-but-Don’t-Drink Law”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The governor found no safety in provisions that ban the licensed gun toters from drinking alcohol — is it the honor system or will bartenders do a search?

• stone-toter

• Treto, toret, otter, torte, Ortet, Otter, Tetro, ortet, ETRTO

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toter

1. inflection of tot:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

• totter, tuter

Inherited from Old High German totoro, tutaro.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈtotər/

toter m

1. egg yolk, yolk
   • 13th century, Berthold von Regensburg, edited 1862 by Franz Pfeiffer:

     Diu erde, dâ diu werlt ûf stât, diu irret uns des sunnen, des nidern sunnen. Wan diu erde ist rehte geschaffen alse ein bal. [...] daz ist geschaffen als ein ei. Diu ûzer schale daz ist der himel den wir dâ sehen. Daz wîze al umbe den tottern daz sint die lüfte. Sô ist der totter enmitten drinne, daz ist diu erde.

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   • 15th century, Das Kochbuch des Meisters Eberhard:

     rurr es ab mit eyer totternn und wurcz es wol

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     und bestreich es wol mit totternn

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     Der totter hicziget bescheidenlich und speißt wol

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• German: Dotter
• Luxembourgish: Dueder