'Toll' definitions:

Definition of 'toll'

(from WordNet)
noun
A fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
noun
Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something; "the cost in human life was enormous"; "the price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?" [syn: price, cost, toll]
noun
The sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells" [syn: bell, toll]
verb
Ring slowly; "For whom the bell tolls"
verb
Charge a fee for using; "Toll the bridges into New York City"

Definition of 'Toll'

From: GCIDE
  • Toll \Toll\, v. i.
  • 1. To pay toll or tallage. [R.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Toll'

From: GCIDE
  • Toll \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. [1913 Webster]
  • The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Toll'

From: GCIDE
  • Toll \Toll\, n. The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Toll'

From: GCIDE
  • Toll \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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Tax; custom; duty; impost. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Toll'

From: GCIDE
  • Toll \Toll\, v. t. [L. tollere. See Tolerate.] (O. Eng. Law) To take away; to vacate; to annul. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Toll'

From: GCIDE
  • Toll \Toll\, v. t. [See Tole.]
  • 1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour. --Beattie. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing. [1913 Webster]
  • When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Toll'

From: GCIDE
  • Toll \Toll\, v. t. To collect, as a toll. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'toll'

From: GCIDE
  • Tole \Tole\ (t[=o]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toled; p. pr. & vb. n. Toling.] [OE. tollen to draw, to entice; of uncertain origin. Cf. Toll to ring a bell.] To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait. [Written also toll.] [1913 Webster]
  • Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at then he should, tole him on to by insensible degrees, till at last he masters the difficulty. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'toll'

From: Easton
  • Toll one of the branches of the king of Persia's revenues (Ezra 4:13; 7:24), probably a tax levied from those who used the bridges and fords and highways.

Synonyms of 'toll'

From: Moby Thesaurus

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