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Meaning Of Toll

  1. v. t.
    To take away; to vacate; to annul.
  2. v. t.
    To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
  3. v. t.
    To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
  4. v. t.
    To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.
  5. v. t.
    To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
  6. v. i.
    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.
  7. n.
    The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
  8. n.
    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.
  9. n.
    A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
  10. n.
    A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
  11. v. i.
    To pay toll or tallage.
  12. v. i.
    To take toll; to raise a tax.
  13. v. t.
    To collect, as a toll.



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