Definition of "toll"

toll¹

/təʊl/

noun
plural tolls
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.
2. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
3. A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
4. (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
5. (US) A tollbooth.
6. (UK, law, obsolete) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
7. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
verb
third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled
1. (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
  Quotations
  No Italian priestShall tithe or toll in our dominions.
  c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene i]
3. (transitive) To take as a toll.
4. To pay a toll or tallage.
  Quotations
  I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him.
  c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iii]

toll²

/təʊl/

noun
plural tolls
1. The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
verb
third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled
1. (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
  Quotations
  From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.
  1922 February, James Joyce, “Episode 12: The Cyclops”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […]
2. (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
  Quotations
  When hollow murmurs of their evening bellsDismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells.
  1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Georgics”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
3. (transitive) To announce by ringing a bell.
  Quotations
  Slow tolls the village-clock the drowſy hour;The partridge burſts away on whirring wings;Deep mourns the turtle in ſequeſter'd bower,And ſhrill lark carols clear from her aereal tour.
  1771, James Beattie, The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius. A Poem. Book the First, 2nd edition, London: […] Edward and Charles Dilly, […]; Edinburgh: A[lexander] Kincaid and W[illiam] Creech; and J[ohn] Bell, […], stanza XLI, page 21
4. (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
  Quotations
  The chaplain's first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong.
  1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “Chief White Halfoat”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 213

toll³

/təʊl/

verb
third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled
1. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; pull; tug; drag.
2. (transitive) To tear in pieces.
3. (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
4. (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).

toll⁴

/təʊl/

verb
third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled
1. (law, obsolete) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
2. (law) To suspend.

toll⁵

/təʊl/

verb
1. (African-American Vernacular) simple past and past participle of tell

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