Toll /(?)/

Toll

v. t.
  1. To take away; to vacate; to annul. (O. Eng. Law)

Toll

v. t.
  1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
  2. To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
  3. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.
    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.

Toll

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Tolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tolling

  1. 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.
    Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell.

Toll

n.
  1. The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

Toll

n.
  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. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law)
  3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

Phrases & Compounds
Toll and team
the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins.
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.
Toll thorough
toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost.
Toll traverse
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
a toll paid at the return of beasts from market, though they were not sold.

Toll

v. i.
  1. To pay toll or tallage. [R.]
  2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.]
    Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice.
    No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.

Toll

v. t.
  1. To collect, as a toll.