toll-nook | A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

Toll
·vt To collect, as a toll. II. Toll ·vi To pay toll or tallage. III. Toll ·vi To take toll; to rai...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
Toll
One of the branches of the king of Persia's revenues (Ezra 4:13; 7:24), probably a tax levied from t...

Easton's Bible Dictionary
to toll
To entice; to lead on. Western. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
toll
A demand, &c., at the Sound; hence the epithet of Sound dues. ...

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Nook
·noun A narrow place formed by an angle in bodies or between bodies; a corner; a recess; a secluded ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
nook
a corner ; the toll-nook, the corner of the market-place where the toll used to be taken. N. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
nook
A small indentation of the land; a little cove in the inner parts of bays and harbours. ...

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toll-bar
a turnpike. N. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Nook-shotten
·adj Full of nooks, angles, or corners. ...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
nook-shotten
spoken of a wall in a bevil, and not at right angles with another wall. ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
nook-shotten
A Shakspearian expression for a coast indented with bays; as in Henry V. Bourbon speaks contemptuous...

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