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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TOLL, n. [Gr. toll, custom, and end, exit, from cutting off; Eng. dole; diolam, to sell, to exchange, to pay toll. This is from the root of deal. See Deal.]
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.
3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
TOLL, v.i. To pay toll or tallage.
1. To take toll, as by a miller.
TOLL, 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 death of a person.
Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell.
TOLL, v.t. [supra.] To cause a bell to sound with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated, as for summoning public bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, or for announcing the death of a person, or to give solemnity to a funeral. Tolling is a different thing from ringing.
TOLL, v.t. [L. tollo.] To take away; to vacate; to annul; a law term.
1. To draw. [See Tole.]
TOLL, n. A particular sounding of a bell.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
2: 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]
3: the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells" [syn: bell, toll] v
1: ring slowly; "For whom the bell tolls"
2: charge a fee for using; "Toll the bridges into New York City"

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Vulgar Latin *tolonium, alteration of Late Latin telonium customhouse, from Greek tol?nion, from tel?n?s collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll; perhaps akin to Greek tl?nai to bear Date: before 12th century 1. a tax or fee paid for some liberty or privilege (as of passing over a highway or bridge) 2. compensation for services rendered: as a. a charge for transportation b. a charge for a long-distance telephone call 3. a grievous or ruinous price <inflation has taken its toll>; especially cost in life or health <the death toll from the hurricane> II. verb Date: 14th century intransitive verb to take or levy toll transitive verb 1. a. to exact part of as a toll b. to take as toll 2. to exact a toll from (someone) III. transitive verb or tole (tolled or toled; tolling or toling) Etymology: Middle English tollen, tolen; akin to Old English fortyllan to seduce Date: 13th century 1. allure, entice 2. a. to entice (game) to approach b. to attract (fish) with scattered bait c. to lead or attract (domestic animals) to a desired point IV. verb Etymology: Middle English, to pull, drag, toll (a bell), perhaps alteration of toilen to struggle — more at toil Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to sound (a bell) by pulling the rope 2. a. to give signal or announcement of <the clock tolled each hour> b. to announce by tolling <church bells tolled the death of the bishop> c. to call to or from a place or occasion <bells tolled the congregation to church> intransitive verb to sound with slow measured strokes <the bell tolls solemnly> V. noun Date: 15th century the sound of a tolling bell

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. 1 a charge payable for permission to pass a barrier or use a bridge or road etc. 2 the cost or damage caused by a disaster, battle, etc., or incurred in an achievement (death toll). 3 US a charge for a long distance telephone call. Phrases and idioms: take its toll be accompanied by loss or injury etc. toll-bridge a bridge at which a toll is charged. toll-gate a gate preventing passage until a toll is paid. toll-house a house at a toll-gate or -bridge, used by a toll-collector. toll-road a road maintained by the tolls collected on it. Etymology: OE f. med.L toloneum f. LL teloneum f. Gk telonion toll-house f. telos tax 2. v. & n. --v. 1 a intr. (of a bell) sound with a slow uniform succession of strokes. b tr. ring (a bell) in this way. c tr. (of a bell) announce or mark (a death etc.) in this way. 2 tr. strike (the hour). --n. 1 the act of tolling. 2 a stroke of a bell. Etymology: ME, special use of (now dial.) toll entice, pull, f. an OE root -tyllan (recorded in fortyllan seduce)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Toll Toll, v. t. [L. tollere. See Tolerate.] (O. Eng. Law) To take away; to vacate; to annul.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Toll 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak. Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Toll 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Toll Toll, v. t. To collect, as a toll. --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(tolls, tolling, tolled) 1. When a bell tolls or when someone tolls it, it rings slowly and repeatedly, often as a sign that someone has died. Church bells tolled and black flags fluttered... The pilgrims tolled the bell. VERB: V, V n 2. A toll is a small sum of money that you have to pay in order to use a particular bridge or road. N-COUNT 3. A toll road or toll bridge is a road or bridge where you have to pay in order to use it. N-COUNT: N n 4. A toll is a total number of deaths, accidents, or disasters that occur in a particular period of time. (JOURNALISM) There are fears that the casualty toll may be higher. N-COUNT: usu sing, supp N see also death toll 5. If you say that something takes its toll or takes a heavy toll, you mean that it has a bad effect or causes a lot of suffering. Winter takes its toll on your health... PHRASE: V inflects, oft PHR on n

Easton's Bible Dictionary

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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

tol: (1) Aramaic middah, "toll" or "tribute" paid by a vassal nation to its conqueror (Ezr 4:20; 6:8; Ne 5:4); written also mindah (Ezr 4:13; 7:24). More accurately for halakh, "toll," or "way tax" (Ezr 4:13,10; 7:24). In New Testament times the Romans had placed throughout Palestine many toll stations (telonion). Levi the publican was stationed at such a tax office (Mt 9:9; Mr 2:14; Lu 5:27); compare telones, a "tax collector" or "publican." The tax which the Jews paid toward the support of the temple, a didrachma, is called telos, "toll" (Mt 17:25), the same as the word rendered "tribute" (Ro 13:7).

Edward Bagby Pollard

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. n. Tax (especially on travellers, as in crossing bridges, ferries, etc.), duty, impost, custom. II. v. a. [Written also Tole.] Allure, draw, draw on.

Moby Thesaurus

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