Troll /(?)/

1. A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch. (Scand. Myth.)

imp. & p. p. Trolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trolling

1. To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.

   To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.

2. To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.

   Then doth she troll to the bowl.

   Troll the brown bowl.

3. To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.

   Will you troll the catch ?

   His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd, By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud.

4. To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
5. To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.

   With patient angle trolls the finny deep.

1. To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
2. To move rapidly; to wag.
3. To take part in trolling a song.
4. To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.

   Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish.

1. The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
2. A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.

   Thence the catch and troll, while “Laughter, holding both his sides,” sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life.

3. A trolley.