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tote road en · NOUN

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1. A rough road for carriers conveying goods.
   • In October of that year, however, the writer went by this route over Pleasant, Harrow, and Musquacook Lakes, down Musquacook Stream into the Allagash and St. John Rivers, and his guides “bushed out” the old tote-roads where there were any, and cut new roads where none had before existed. 1882, Lucius Lee Hubbard, Hubbard's Guide to Moosehead Lake and Northern Maine, page 115:
   • The trail to the Forks follows a disused toteroad, abandoned by the lumbermen some fifty years ago or more, but still very superior as to width and undeviousness. 1944, John Daniel Robins, The Incomplete Anglers, page 67:

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