toll
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Is toll a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (business, by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.Examples: "We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending."broadly
2. (US) A tollbooth.Examples: "We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers."US
3. (UK, law, obsolete) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.UKobsolete
4. (obsolete, regional England) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.Englandobsoleteregional
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.Examples: "Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges."transitive
2. (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).Examples: "No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions."ambitransitive
3. (transitive) To take as a toll.transitive
verb (English)
1. (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.Examples: "Martin tolled the great bell every day."; "Ask not for whom the bell tolls."; "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."ergative
2. (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.Examples: "The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers."; "When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells."transitive
3. (transitive) To announce by ringing a bell.Examples: "The bells tolled the King’s death."; "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."transitive
4. (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.Examples: "The chaplain's first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong."figuratively
verb (English)
1. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; pull; tug; drag.obsoletetransitive
2. (transitive) To tear in pieces.transitive
3. (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.Examples: "Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady""transitive
4. (transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).Synonyms: bait, luretransitive
verb (English)
1. (law, obsolete) To take away; to vacate; to annul.obsolete
2. (law) To suspend.Examples: "The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct."
verb (English)
1. (African-American Vernacular) simple past and past participle of tellExamples: "I done toll you for the last time."form-ofparticiplepast
Definition source: Wiktionary