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Toll \Toll\, v. t. [L. tollere. See {Tolerate}.] (O. Eng. Law)
   To take away; to vacate; to annul.

Toll \Toll\, v. t. [See {Tole}.]
   1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See {Tole}.

   2. [Probably the same word as toll to draw, and at first
      meaning, to ring in order to draw people to church.] To
      cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and
      uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell. ``The
      sexton tolled the bell.'' --Hood.

   3. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to
      ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. --Shak.

            Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour.
                                                  --Beattie.

   4. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

            When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss
            the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells.
                                                  --Dryden.

Toll \Toll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tolled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Tolling}.]
   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.

         The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak.

         Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope.

Toll \Toll\, n.
   The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly
   repeated.

Toll \Toll\, v. i.
   1. To pay toll or tallage. [R.] --Shak.

   2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.]

            Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll
            thrice.                               --Chaucer.

            No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our
            dominions.                            --Shak.

Toll \Toll\, n. [OE. tol, AS. toll; akin to OS. & D. tol, G.
   zoll, OHG. zol, Icel. tollr, Sw. tull, Dan. told, and also to
   E. tale; -- originally, that which is counted out in payment.
   See {Tale} number.]
   1. 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.

   2. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law) A liberty to buy and sell within the
      bounds of a manor.

   3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for
      grinding.

   {Toll and team} (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a
      market, and jurisdiction of villeins. --Burrill.

   {Toll bar}, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats
      at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers.

   {Toll bridge}, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over
      it.

   {Toll corn}, corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill.

   {Toll dish}, a dish for measuring toll in mills.

   {Toll gatherer}, a man who takes, or gathers, toll.

   {Toll hop}, a toll dish. [Obs.] --Crabb.

   {Toll thorough} (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts
      driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at
      its cost. --Brande & C.

   {Toll traverse} (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for
      beasts driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for
      passing over the private ground, bridge, ferry, or the
      like, of another.

   {Toll turn} (Eng. Law), a toll paid at the return of beasts
      from market, though they were not sold. --Burrill.

   Syn: Tax; custom; duty; impost.

Toll \Toll\, v. t.
   To collect, as a toll. --Shak.

资料来源 : WordNet®

toll
     v 1: ring slowly; "For whom the bell tolls"
     2: charge a fee for using; "Toll the bridges into New York
        City"

toll
     n 1: a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for
          maintenance)
     2: value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to
        obtain something; "the cost in human life was enormous";
        "the price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?"
        [syn: {price}, {cost}]
     3: the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she
        heard the distant toll of church bells" [syn: {bell}]