To tote something, especially a gun, means to carry it with you in such a way that people can see it. The demonstrators fled when soldiers toting machine guns advanced on the crowd. + -toting -toting They are too frightened to speak out against the gun-toting thugs. A pari-mutuel machine. a system in Britain in which a machine adds together the amounts of money bet on a horse race and divides the total among the people who bet on the winner. to carry something, especially regularly (Perhaps from tot , probably from a language)