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TOLL, n. [Gr. toll, custom, and end, exit, from cutting off; Eng. dole; diolam, to sell, to exchange, to pay toll. This is from the root of deal. See Deal.]

1. A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market or the like.

2. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

TOLL, v.i. To pay toll or tallage.

1. To take toll, as by a miller.

TOLL, v.i. To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.

Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell.

TOLL, v.t. [supra.] To cause a bell to sound with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated, as for summoning public bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, or for announcing the death of a person, or to give solemnity to a funeral. Tolling is a different thing from ringing.

TOLL, v.t. [L. tollo.] To take away; to vacate; to annul; a law term.

1. To draw. [See Tole.]

TOLL, n. A particular sounding of a bell.



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TOLL, n. [Gr. toll, custom, and end, exit, from cutting off; Eng. dole; diolam, to sell, to exchange, to pay toll. This is from the root of deal. See Deal.]

1. A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market or the like.

2. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

TOLL, v.i. To pay toll or tallage.

1. To take toll, as by a miller.

TOLL, v.i. To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.

Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell.

TOLL, v.t. [supra.] To cause a bell to sound with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated, as for summoning public bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, or for announcing the death of a person, or to give solemnity to a funeral. Tolling is a different thing from ringing.

TOLL, v.t. [L. tollo.] To take away; to vacate; to annul; a law term.

1. To draw. [See Tole.]

TOLL, n. A particular sounding of a bell.


TOLL, n.1 [Sax. toll; D. tol; Sw. tull; Dan. told; G. zoll; W. toll, a fraction, a toll; toli and toliaw, to curtail, to diminish, to take away, to spare or save, to deal out, from tawl, a throw, a casting off, a separation, a cutting off; tolli, from toll, to subtract, to take toll; Gr. τελος, toll, custom, and end, exit, from cutting off; Fr. tailler, to cut off, (see Tail;) Ir. deilim, to separate; dail, a share, Eng. dole; diolam, to sell, to exchange, to pay toll. This is from the root of deal. See Deal, Sax. bedælan. Class Dl, No. 12.]

  1. A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market or the like.
  2. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor. Cyc.
  3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

TOLL, n.2

A particular sounding of a bell.


TOLL, v.i.1

  1. To pay toll or tallage. Shak.
  2. To take toll, as by a miller. Tusser.

TOLL, v.i.2 [W. tol, tolo, a loud sound, a din; Pers. قَاليدَنْ talidan, to sound, to ring. We see that W. tawl, supra, is a throw or cast, a driving, and this is the radical sense of sound.]

To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person. Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. Pope.


TOLL, v.t.1 [supra.]

To cause a bell to sound with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated, as for summoning pubic bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, or for announcing the death of a person, or to give solemnity to a funeral. Tolling is a different thing from ringing.


TOLL, v.t.2 [L. tollo.]

  1. To take away; to vacate; to annul; a law term.
  2. To draw. [See Tole.] Bacon.

Toll
  1. To take away; to vacate; to annul.
  2. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
  3. To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.

    The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. Shak.

    Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. Pope.

  4. The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
  5. A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.
  6. To pay toll or tallage.

    [R.] Shak.
  7. To collect, as a toll.

    Shak.
  8. To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.

    "The sexton tolled the bell." Hood.
  9. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
  10. To take toll; to raise a tax.

    [R.]

    Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice. Chaucer.

    No Italian priest
    Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.     Shak.

  11. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.

    Shak.

    Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour. Beattie.

  12. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

    Toll and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins. Burrill. -- Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers. -- Toll bridge, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over it. -- Toll corn, corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill. -- Toll dish, a dish for measuring toll in mills. -- Toll gatherer, a man who takes, or gathers, toll. -- Toll hop, a toll dish. [Obs.] Crabb. -- Toll thorough (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. Brande & C. -- Toll traverse (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for beasts driven across his ground] toll paid by a person for passing over the private ground, bridge, ferry, or the like, of another. -- Toll turn (Eng. Law), a toll paid at the return of beasts from market, though they were not sold. Burrill.

    Syn. -- Tax; custom; duty; impost.

  13. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

    When hollow murmurs of their evening bells
    Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells.     Dryden.

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Toll

TOLL, noun [Gr. toll custom, and end, exit, from cutting off; Eng. dole; diolam, to sell, to exchange, to pay toll This is from the root of deal. See Deal.]

1. A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market or the like.

2. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

TOLL, verb intransitive To pay toll or tallage.

1. To take toll as by a miller.

TOLL, verb intransitive To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.

Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell.

TOLL, verb transitive [supra.] To cause a bell to sound with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated, as for summoning public bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, or for announcing the death of a person, or to give solemnity to a funeral. Tolling is a different thing from ringing.

TOLL, verb transitive [Latin tollo.] To take away; to vacate; to annul; a law term.

1. To draw. [See Tole.]

TOLL, noun A particular sounding of a bell.

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