Hypertext Webster Gateway: "toll"

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)

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.

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

Tole \Tole\ (t[=o]l), 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}.]

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.

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

Toll \Toll\, v. t. [L. tollere. See {Tolerate}.] (O. Eng. Law)
To take away; to vacate; to annul.

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

Toll \Toll\, v. t. [See {Tole}.]
1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See {Tole}.

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.

3. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to
ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. --Shak.

Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour.
--Beattie.

4. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss
the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells.
--Dryden.

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

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.

The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak.

Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope.

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

Toll \Toll\, n.
The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly
repeated.

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

Toll \Toll\, v. i.
1. To pay toll or tallage. [R.] --Shak.

2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.]

Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll
thrice. --Chaucer.

No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our
dominions. --Shak.

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

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.

2. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law) A liberty to buy and sell within the
bounds of a manor.

3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for
grinding.

{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.

Syn: Tax; custom; duty; impost.

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

Toll \Toll\, v. t.
To collect, as a toll. --Shak.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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}]
v 1: ring slowly, of bells; "For whom the bell tolls"
2: ring recurrently; of bells [syn: {peal}]


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