Toll , v. t. To collect, as a
toll. Shak.
Toll (?), v. 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.
Shak.
Toll (?), n. [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 , n. The sound of
a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly
repeated.
Toll , v. 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.
Shak.
Now sink in sorrows with a
tolling bell.
Pope.
Toll , v. 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 (?), v. t. [L. tollere. See Tolerate.]
(O. Eng. Law) To take away;
to vacate; to annul.
Hear it pronounced