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Webster 1913 Edition


Toll

Toll

,
Verb.
T.
[L.
tollere
. See
Tolerate
.]
(O. Eng. Law)
To take away; to vacate; to annul.

Toll

,
Verb.
T.
[See
Tole
.]
1.
To draw; to entice; to allure. See
Tole
.
2.
[Probably the same word as
toll
to draw, and at first meaning, to ring in order to draw people to church.]
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.
3.
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.
4.
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.

Toll

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Tolled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Tolling
.]
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
.
Shakespeare
Now sink in sorrows with a
tolling
bell.
Pope.

Toll

,
Noun.
The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

Toll

,
Noun.
[OE.
tol
, AS.
toll
; akin to OS. & D.
tol
, G.
zoll
, OHG.
zol
, Icel.
tollr
, Sw.
tull
, Dan.
told
, and also to E.
tale
; – originally, that which is counted out in payment. See
Tale
number.]
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.
(Sax. & O. Eng. Law)
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 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.

Toll

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To pay toll or tallage.
[R.]
Shak.
2.
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.
Shakespeare

Toll

,
Verb.
T.
To collect, as a toll.
Shak.

Webster 1828 Edition


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.
I.
To pay toll or tallage.
1.
To take toll, as by a miller.

TOLL

,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
T.
[L. tollo.] To take away; to vacate; to annul; a law term.
1.
To draw. [See Tole.]

TOLL

,
Noun.
A particular sounding of a bell.