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Toll

//təʊl// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun

1
A surname.

Noun

1
A fee 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, etc.
"Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged."
2
The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
3
value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something wordnet
4
Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
"The war has taken its toll on the people."
5
the sound of a bell being struck wordnet

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6
A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
"toll ore refining; toll manufacturing"
7
a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges wordnet
8
A fee for using any kind of material processing service. broadly
"We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending."
9
A tollbooth. US
"We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers."
10
A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor. UK, obsolete
11
A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. England, obsolete, regional

Verb

1
To impose a fee for the use of. transitive
"Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges."
2
To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly. ergative
"Martin tolled the great bell every day."
3
To draw; pull; tug; drag. obsolete, transitive
4
To take away; to vacate; to annul. obsolete
5
simple past and past participle of tell form-of, participle, past
"I done toll you for the last time."

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6
ring slowly wordnet
7
To levy a toll on (someone or something). ambitransitive
"No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions."
8
To summon by ringing a bell. transitive
"The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers."
9
To tear in pieces. transitive
10
To suspend.
"The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct."
11
charge a fee for using wordnet
12
To take as a toll. transitive
13
To announce by ringing a bell. transitive
"The bells tolled the King’s death."
14
To draw; entice; invite; allure. transitive
"Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady""
15
To pay a toll or tallage.
"I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him."
16
To make a sound as if made by a bell. figuratively
"The chaplain's first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong."
17
To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals). transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-West Germanic *toll, *tolnu, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz, *tullō (“that which is counted or told, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“calculation, fraud”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tol (“toll”), Dutch tol (“toll”), German Zoll (“toll, duty, customs”), Danish told (“toll, duty, tariff”), Swedish tull (“toll, customs”), Icelandic tollur (“toll, customs”). More at tell, tale. Alternate etymology derives Old English toll from Medieval Latin tolōneum, tolōnium, alteration (due to the Germanic forms above) of Latin telōneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (telṓnion, “toll-house”), from τέλος (télos, “tax”).

Etymology 2

Etymology 3

Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by toil

Etymology 4

Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by toil

Etymology 5

From Middle English tolen, tollen, variation of tullen, tillen (“to draw, allure, entice”), from Old English *tyllan, *tillan (“to pull, draw, attract”) (found in compounds fortyllan (“to seduce, lead astray, draw away from the mark, deceive”) and betyllan, betillan (“to lure, decoy”)), related to Old Frisian tilla (“to lift, raise”), Dutch tillen (“to lift, raise, weigh, buy”), Low German tillen (“to lift, remove”), Swedish dialectal tille (“to take up, appropriate”).

Etymology 6

From Latin tollō (“to lift up”).

Etymology 7

* As an English surname, variant of Towle, Tole. * As a German surname, from the adjective toll, meaning both "wonderful" and "crazy, mad." Also shortened from Bartholomäus. * As a Dutch surname, variant of Tol, sometimes shortened from Van Toll.

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