Toll
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[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] Toll \Toll\, v. t. [L. tollere. See Tolerate.] (O. Eng. Law) To take away; to vacate; to annul. [1913 Webster] 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] 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]  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, 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"  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.  toll [tɔl] jazzy; mad; madcap; pippin Toll! [tɔl] wow!  toll aberrant; agité; fou furieux  toll matto furibondo; furioso  toll dol; dolzinnig; gek; krankzinnig; stapel; uitzinnig; waanzinnig dol; doldriftig; verwoed; woedend; woest  toll insano; louco fulo; furioso; raivoso  toll [toulfriː] Gebühr; Zoll  toll harangszó hídvám kár veszteség vám vámszedésijog  toll 1. plumage 2. feather 3. pen 4. plume  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.  toll Gebühr f toll Läuten n; Glockenschlag m; Glockengeläut n toll Maut f; Mautgebühr f; Benutzungsgebühr f; Zoll m toll läuten vt toll läuten; schallen vi  toll fantastic toll adj stunning toll adj show-stopping [coll.] toll adj def [Am.] [slang] toll tremendous toll great; huge toll gorgeous toll adj jazzy toll adj bodacious [Am.] toll brill [Br.] toll madcap toll pippin toll adj groovy toll adj mad toll wild Toll! 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