[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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
see also:
tale toll and team toll bar toll bridge toll corn toll dish 
toll gatherer toll hop toll thorough toll traverse toll turn 

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Medieval Sourcebook: Edgar, King of the English: Grant of Market Rights to ...
...... toll and team, and infangthief: these privileges and all others ... that is, Eastfield and Dodthorpe, and Eye, and Paston. And so I free ... ..
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/963medstead.html, score=100, date indexed=January 4, 2006, 12:16 pm

Sources of English Constitutional History: Chapter 27
...... toll and team and infangeneþeof, and with all the customs and ... toll and team, and infangeneþeof, in wood and in plain, in vill and in ... ..
http://www.constitution.org/sech/sech_027.htm, score=99, date indexed=January 11, 2006, 10:58 pm

Medieval Sourcebook: Edgar, King of the English: Grant of Exemption from ...
...... toll and team, just as free and peaceably as I have in my kingdom: let ... and other bishops, abbots, and chiefs assenting and approving, I, ... ..
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/965Edgartax.html, score=99, date indexed=December 16, 2005, 5:03 pm

Medieval Sourcebook: Henry I, King of England: Grant of a Fair to Ramsey Abbey, ...
...... and truly, with sac and soc, toll and team, and infangentheof, and ... barons and to all his faithful people, both French and English, and to ... ..
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1110ramsey.html, score=99, date indexed=January 4, 2006, 12:12 pm

...... toll and team, and infangenežeof, in wood and in plain, in vill and in ... and army [service], with sac and soc, toll and infangenežeof, and all ... ..
http://www.constitution.org/sech/sech_027.txt, score=99, date indexed=January 11, 2006, 8:36 am

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