Toll

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To collect, as a toll.

II. Toll ·vi To pay toll or tallage.

III. Toll ·vi To take toll; to raise a tax.

IV. Toll ·vt To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

V. Toll ·noun A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

VI. Toll ·noun A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

VII. Toll ·noun The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

VIII. Toll ·vt To take away; to Vacate; to Annul.

IX. Toll ·vt To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.

X. Toll ·vt To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.

XI. Toll ·vt To Draw; to Entice; to allure. ·see Tole.

XII. Toll ·vi 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.

XIII. Toll ·noun 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.

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