colloq. [f. TOT sb.3] trans. To add together and bring out the total of; to sum up.
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), IV. 82. These, totted together, will make a pretty beginning of my little project.
1838. T. Hook, Gurney Married, III. 403. And now, Ma’am, if you will just tot up your account for schooling and that, I’ll arrange the whole matter.
1876. Farjeon, Love’s Victory, xiv. When he totted up the figures, he was rather serious.
1895. Stuart & Park, Variety Stage, ii. 31. The reckoning was paid on quitting the room, a waiter totting up the account as you passed through.
b. intr. To tot up: to amount, ‘come’ (to).
1882. Besant, All Sorts, iv. I … wondered how much it would tot up to. Something, I thought, in four figures.
1892. Idler, July, 719. Three stalls a week tot up frightfully in a year.
Hence Totting vbl. sb.
1823. Monthly Mag., LV. 237. All the items were tenaciously preserved in the toting up.
1853. Cowden Clarke, Shaks. Char., vi. 152. The very ‘totting up’ of his qualifications creates a ‘real presence’ of the man.
1865. Standard, 31 July. The totting [of the votes] was not concluded by Mr. Dames until half-past two.
