tote road

English

Alternative forms

• toteroad

Noun

tote road (plural tote roads)

1. A rough road for carriers conveying goods.
   • 1882, Lucius Lee Hubbard, Hubbard's Guide to Moosehead Lake and Northern Maine, page 115:

     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.

   • 1944, John Daniel Robins, The Incomplete Anglers, page 67:

     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.