Toll — Defs

01 v. t. To take away; to vacate; to annul.

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

02 v. t. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

1.
To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole. 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.” — Dryden.

03 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 dea…

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.” — Shak.

“Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell.” — Pope.

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

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

05 n. 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 g…

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.

Syn. Tax; custom; duty; impost.

06 v. i. To pay toll or tallage.

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.” — Chaucer.

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

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

1.
To collect, as a toll.