Hypertext Webster Gateway: "trolled"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Troll \Troll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Trolled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Trolling}.] [OE. trollen to roll, F. tr[^o]ler, Of. troller
to drag about, to ramble; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. G.
trollen to roll, ramble, sich trollen to be gone; or perhaps
for trotler, fr. F. trotter to trot (cf. {Trot}.). Cf.
{Trawl}.]
1. To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.

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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn
along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.

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

With patient angle trolls the finny deep.
--Goldsmith.


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