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troll

TROLL, v.t. To move in a circular direction; to roll; to move volubly; to turn; to drive about.

They learn to roll the eye, and troll the tongue.

Troll about the bridal bow.

TROLL, v.i. To roll; to run about; as, to troll in a coach and six.

1. Among anglers, to fish for pikes with a rod whose line runs on a wheel or pulley.


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TROLL, v.t. To move in a circular direction; to roll; to move volubly; to turn; to drive about.

They learn to roll the eye, and troll the tongue.

Troll about the bridal bow.

TROLL, v.i. To roll; to run about; as, to troll in a coach and six.

1. Among anglers, to fish for pikes with a rod whose line runs on a wheel or pulley.

TROLL, v.i.

  1. To roll; to run about; as, to troll in a coach and six. Swift.
  2. Among anglers, to fish for pikes with a rod whose line runs on a wheel or pulley. Gay. Cyc.

TROLL, v.t. [G. trollen; W. troliaw, to troll, to roll; troelli, to turn, wheel or whirl; troell, a wheel, a reel; trol, a roller. It is probably formed on roll.]

To move in a circular direction; to roll; to move volubly; to turn; to drive about. They learn to roll the eye, and troll the tongue. Anon. Troll about the bridat bowl. B. Jonson.


Troll
  1. A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.

    Troll flower. (Bot.) Same as Globeflower (a).

  2. To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.

    To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye. Milton.

  3. To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
  4. The act of moving round; routine; repetition.

    Burke.
  5. To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.

    Then doth she troll to the bowl. Gammer Gurton's Needle.

    Troll the brown bowl. Sir W. Scott.

  6. To move rapidly; to wag.

    F. Beaumont.
  7. A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.

    Thence the catch and troll, while "Laughter, holding both his sides," sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life. Prof. Wilson.

  8. To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.

    Will you troll the catch ? Shak.

    His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd,
    By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud.     Hudibras.

  9. To take part in trolling a song.
  10. A trolley.

    Troll plate (Mach.), a rotative disk with spiral ribs or grooves, by which several pieces, as the jaws of a chuck, can be brought together or spread radially.

  11. To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
  12. To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.

    Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish. Bancroft.

  13. To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.

    With patient angle trolls the finny deep. Goldsmith.

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Troll

TROLL, verb transitive To move in a circular direction; to roll; to move volubly; to turn; to drive about.

They learn to roll the eye, and troll the tongue.

TROLL about the bridal bow.

TROLL, verb intransitive To roll; to run about; as, to troll in a coach and six.

1. Among anglers, to fish for pikes with a rod whose line runs on a wheel or pulley.

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