totalizer (totalizer)

[ Under the heading of "The totalisator at Hobart," the Austral asian writes as follows:... the click, click of the totalisator was distinctly heard as each speculator invested his pound. Philadelphia Daily News , April 10, 1886. totally (to'tal-i), adv . As a total; completely; entirely; wholly; utterly. and West.] Now, I should also like to know how much a man can tote , how much a woman can tote , and how long a time, without resting, the toting may go on. Science, XI. 242. The bullies used to maltreat the weaker ones, make them tote more than their share of the log, pound them, and beat them, and worry them every way on earth. The Century , XL. 224. toteart, v. t. [ME. toteren , tōteran , tear asunder, to- , apart, + teran , tear: see tear1 .] 1. To tear apart; tear to pieces; rend; break. Cristys Cros than zaf answere: "Lady, to the I owe honour,... Thy trye fruyt I totere ." In a tauny tabarde of twelue wynter age, Al totorne and baudy and ful of lys crepynge. Her othes ben so gret and so dampnable That it is grisly for to here hem swere; Our bli ed lordes body they totere. With his chere and lokynge al totorn , 1727. For sorwe of this, and with his armes folden. Chaucer , Troilus, iv. 358. sponding to the genus Totanus in a broad sense, but containing a number of other modern genera; the tattlers. They are found all over the world, in great abundance of individuals and numerous species. The chief distinction from the true snipes or Scolopacinæ lies in the bill, which is relatively shorter ardere The legs are longer, and usually denuded above the suffrago, so that the lower end of the tibia is bare of feathers. The feet are more or le semipalmate. They are noisy, restle birds, inhabiting marshes, swamps, and wet woodland and meadows. The yellow shanks, willet, and solitary and spotted sandpipers of the United States are good examples. One of the most wide-spread and notable is the wandering tattler, Heteros cel us in can us or brevipes. Also called Totaneæ, as a group ranking lower than a subfamily, and formally contrasted with Tringeæ. See Totanus, and cuts under Bartramia, greenshank, redshank, Rhy a cop hilus, ruff, semipalmate, tattler, Terekia, Tringoides, Tryngites, willet, and yellow shank.