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Found 12 hits - Term: toll, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
tole \tole\ t=ol, 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
see also:
toled toling toll toll 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
toll \toll\, v. t.
   to collect, as a toll. --shak.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
toll \toll\, n.
   the sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly
   repeated.
   1913 webster

[5] : 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 

[6] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
toll \toll\, v. t. l. tollere. see tolerate. o. eng. law
   to take away; to vacate; to annul.
   1913 webster
see also:
tolerate 
[7] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
see also:
tole 
[8] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
see also:
tolled tolling 
[9] : WordNet (r) 2.0
toll
     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
     3: the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she
        heard the distant toll of church bells" syn: bell
     v 1: ring slowly; "for whom the bell tolls"
     2: charge a fee for using; "toll the bridges into new york
        city"
see also:
price cost bell 
[10] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
123 moby thesaurus words for "toll":
   admission, admission fee, allure, anchorage, assessment, bait,
   bell, bong, brokerage, carfare, cellarage, cess, change ringing,
   charge, charges, chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging, clangor,
   clank, clanking, clink, conscience money, contribution, cost,
   cover charge, damages, decoy, demand, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong,
   dinging, dingle, direct tax, dockage, dong, donging, dues, duty,
   entice, entrance fee, entrap, exaction, exactment, excise, fare,
   fee, gong, graduated taxation, hire, imposition, impost,
   indirect tax, inveigle, jangle, jingle, jingle-jangle,
   jinglejangle, jingling, joint return, knell, knelling, lead on,
   levy, license fee, loss, peal, peal ringing, pealing, penalty,
   pilotage, portage, price, progressive tax, ring, ring changes,
   ringing, salvage, scot, scot and lot, seduce, separate returns,
   shot, single tax, sound, sound a knell, sounding, storage, strike,
   striking, supertax, surtax, tariff, tax, tax base, tax dodging,
   tax evasion, tax exemption, tax return, tax structure,
   tax withholding, tax-exempt status, taxable income, taxation,
   tempt, ting, ting-a-ling, tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling,
   tinnitus, tintinnabulate, tithe, tolling, towage, tribute,
   wharfage, withholding tax




[11] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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.
   

[12] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
toll, contracts. a sum of money for the use of something, generally applied 
to the consideration which is paid for the use of a road, bridge, or the 
like, of a public nature. toll is also the compensation paid to a miller for 
grinding another person's grain. 
     2. the rate of taking toll for grinding is regulated by statute in most 
of the states. see 2 hill. ab. oh. 17; 6 ad.  ell. n. s. 31,; 6 q. b. 3 1. 




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