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toll

1  [tohl] ,
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–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 telnēs 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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toll 1   (tōl)   
n.  

  1. A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.

  2. A charge for a service, such as a long-distance telephone call.

  3. 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

  1. To exact as a toll.

  2. 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.]
toll 2   (tōl)   
v.   tolled, toll·ing, tolls

v.   tr.

  1. To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.

  2. To announce or summon by tolling.

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

  1. The act of tolling.

  2. 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.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Legal Dictionary

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>
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Bible Dictionary

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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Idioms & Phrases

toll

see take its toll.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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