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toll

1 [tohl]

–noun

1.	a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge.

2.	the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity: The toll was 300 persons dead or missing.

3.	a tax, duty, or tribute, as for services or use of facilities.

4.	a payment made for a long-distance telephone call.

5.	(formerly, in England) the right to take such payment.

6.	a compensation for services, as for transportation or transmission.

7.	grain retained by a miller in payment for grinding.

–verb (used with object)

8.	to collect (something) as toll.

9.	to impose a tax or toll on (a person).

–verb (used without object)

10.	to collect toll; levy toll.

Origin:
bef. 1000; (n.) ME, OE toll (c. D tol, G Zoll, ON tollr), assimilated var. of OE toln < LL tolōnēum, for telōnēum < Gk telōneîon tollhouse, akin to tel

nēs tax collector, télos tax; (v.) ME tollen, deriv. of the n.

Synonyms:
3. tariff, levy, impost, exaction.

toll

2 [tohl]

–verb (used with object)

1.	to cause (a large bell) to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as for summoning a congregation to church, or esp. for announcing a death.

2.	to sound or strike (a knell, the hour, etc.) by such strokes: In the distance Big Ben tolled five.

3.	to announce by this means; ring a knell for (a dying or dead person).

4.	to summon or dismiss by tolling.

5.	to lure or decoy (game) by arousing curiosity.

6.	to allure; entice: He tolls us on with fine promises.

–verb (used without object)

7.	to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as a bell.

–noun

8.	the act of tolling a bell.

9.	one of the strokes made in tolling a bell.

10.	the sound made.

Also, tole (for defs. 5, 6).

Origin:
1175–1225; ME tollen to entice, lure, pull, hence prob. to make (a bell) ring by pulling a rope; akin to OE -tyllan, in fortyllan to attract, allure

toll

3 [tohl]

–verb (used with object) Law.

to suspend or interrupt (as a statute of limitations).

Origin:
1425–75; late ME tollen to remove, legally annul < AF tolre, tol(l)er < L tollere to remove, take away

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toll¹ (tōl)

A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
A charge for a service, such as a long-distance telephone call.
An amount or extent of loss or destruction, as of life, health, or property: "Poverty and inadequate health care take their toll on the quality of a community's health" (Los Angeles Times).

tr.v. tolled, toll·ing, tolls

To exact as a toll.
To charge a fee for using (a structure, such as a bridge).

[Middle English, from Old English, variant of toln, from Medieval Latin tolōnīum, from Latin telōnēum, tollbooth, from Greek telōneion, from telōnēs, tax collector, from telos, tax; see telə- in Indo-European roots.]

toll² (tōl)

v. tolled, toll·ing, tolls

v. tr.

To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.
To announce or summon by tolling.

v. intr.
To sound in slowly repeated single tones.
n.

The act of tolling.
The sound of a bell being struck.

[Middle English tollen, to ring an alarm, perhaps from tollen, to entice, pull, variant of tillen, from Old English -tyllan.]

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

Language Translation for : toll

Spanish: tañer, doblar,

German: läuten,

Japanese: 鳴らす

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toll (n.)

"tax, fee," O.E. toll, variant of toln, cognate with O.N. tollr, O.Fris. tolen, O.H.G. zol, Ger. Zoll, representing an early Gmc. borrowing from L.L. tolonium "custom house," from L. telonium "tollhouse," from Gk. teloneion "tollhouse," from telones "tax-collector," from telos "tax" (see tele-; for sense, cf. finance). Originally in a general sense of "payment exacted by an authority;" meaning "charge for right of passage along a road" is from 1477. Tollbooth is attested from 1314, originally meaning a tax collector's booth.

toll (v.)

"to sound with single strokes," 1452, probably a special use of tollen "to draw, lure," c.1220 variant of O.E. -tyllan in betyllan "to lure, decoy," and fortyllan "draw away, seduce," of obscure origin. The notion is perhaps of "luring" people to church with the sound of the bells, or of "drawing" on the bell rope.

Main Entry: toll
Function: noun
Etymology: Old English, tax or fee paid for a liberty or privilege, ultimately from Late Latin telonium custom house, from Greek tolOnion, from telOnEs collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll
: a charge for the use of a transportation route or facility; broadly : a charge for use toll>

Main Entry: toll
Function: verb
Etymology: Anglo-French tollir toller to take away, make null, bar, ultimately from Latin tollere to lift up, take away
transitive verb 1 : to take away (as a right)
2 a : to remove the effect of toll the statute of repose after the statutory period had expired> b : SUSPEND 2a <toll the running of the statute of limitations> —compare RUN intransitive verb : to be suspended tolls for a period of seventy-five days following the notice —Parker v. Yen, 823 South Western Reporter, Second Series 359 (1991)>

Main Entry: toll
Function: noun
: a suspension of effect toll>

Toll

one of the branches of the king of Persia's revenues (Ezra 4:13; 7:24), probably a tax levied from those who used the bridges and fords and highways.

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