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. |
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