Also 9 toat. [app. f. tote, obs. and dial. form of TOOT v.1 to project, stick out. (R. Holme belonged to Cheshire, where the vb. is still tote.)] The handle of a carpenter’s plane.

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1678.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc., iv. 61. A Fore Plain, a The Tote.

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1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, III. 352/2. All the difference is in the Tote or Handle, which every Workman maketh according to his own Fancy.

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1823.  P. Nicholson, Pract. Build., 243.

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1873.  Routledge’s Yng. Gentl. Mag., July, 503/1. The handle [of a jack plane] is called a toat or horn.

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1901.  J. Black’s Illustr. Carp. & Build., Home Handicr., 10. The jack plane is used by grasping the ‘tote,’ or handle, firmly with the right hand, placing the left hand on the fore part of the plane [etc.].

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