{Troll flower}. (Bot.) Same as {Globeflower}
(a) .
2. To move rapidly; to wag. --F. Beaumont.
3. To take part in trolling a song.
4. 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.
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.
2. 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.
3. 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.