toll 
No Italian priest 
Shall tithe or loll in our dominion. 
Sliak., K. John, iii. 1. 154. 
Il.t trans. To take as a part of a general con- 
tribution or tax; exact as a tribute. 
Like the bee, tolling [var. culling] from every flower 
The virtuous sweets. Shak. , 2 Hen. IV. , iv. 5. 75. 
For the Customers of the King of Turkoman tolled, of 
euery flue and twentie, one. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 422. 
toll 2 (tol), v. t. [Also irreg. Me, formerly tool; 
< ME. fallen, later sometimes Men, draw, allure, 
entice, tollicn, also titllcn, draw, allure, entice, 
tille, < AS. "tyllan infor-tyllan, draw away from 
the mark, allure : see tilfi.] If. To draw ; pull ; 
tug; drag. 
But as a traytour atteynted the! toled hym and tugged hym. 
York Plays, p. 482. 
The sensitive appetite often, yea and for the most part, 
toalethmd haleth the will to consent and follow her plea- 
sures and delights. T. Wright, Passions of the Mind, 1. 8. 
2. To tear in pieces. Halttwell (under tolc). 
[Prov. Eng.] 3. To draw; invite; entice; al- 
lure. 
Tis a mermaid 
Has tol'd my son to shipwreck. 
Middleton and Dekker, Roaring Girl, i. 1. 
The farmer tolled the animal out of his sty, and far down 
the street, by tempting red apples. 
S. T. Cooke, Somebody's Neighbors, p. 60. 
toll 3 (tol), i;. [Formerly also tole; a particular 
use of toll 2 , pull, the sense having passed from 
' pull a bell, i. e. pull the rope so as to make 
the bell sound, to 'make the bell sound.'] I. 
trans. 1. To cause (a bell) to sound with sin- 
gle strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as for 
summoning public bodies or religious congre- 
gations to their meetings, for announcing a 
death, or to give solemnity to a funeral ; spe- 
cifically, to ring (a bell) by striking it with a 
hammer without swinging. 
To Toll a Bell, which is to make him strike onely of one 
side. Minsheu, 1617. 
I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day. 
Cowper, My Mother's Picture. 
A bell of very moderate weight will soon pull an ordi- 
nary wall to pieces if rung in full swing across it. The 
bells in " bell gables " can hardly ever be safely rung for 
that reason, but only tolled. 
Sir E. Beckett, Clocks, Watches, and Bells, p. 372. 
2. To give out or utter by tolling or striking, 
as the sound of a bell or a clock. 
And bells toll'd out their mighty peal, 
For the departed spirit's weal. 
Scott, L. of L. M., vl. 30. 
Clear and loud 
The village-clock tolled six. 
Wordsworth, Influence of Natural Objects. 
3. To call attention to or give notice of by 
slowly measured sounds of a bell ; ring for or 
on account of. 
A sullen bell, 
Remember'd tolling a departing friend. 
SAoi.,2Hen. IV., 1. 1. 103. 
One set slow bell will seem to toll 
The passing of the sweetest soul 
That ever look'd with human eyes. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Ivii. 
II. intrans. To give out the slowly measured 
sounds of a bell when struck singly and at reg- 
ular intervals, as in calling meetings, or at fu- 
nerals, or to announce the death of a person. 
The clocks do toll, 
And the third hour of drowsy morning name. 
Shak., Hen. V., iv. (cho.). 
Toll for the brave ! 
The brave that are no more ! 
Cowper, Loss of the Royal George. 
The Curfew Bell 
Is beginning to toll. 
Longfellow, Curfew. 
toll 3 (tol), n. [Formerly also tole; < tolft, v.'] 
The sounding of a bell with slowly measured 
single strokes. 
But here some seventeen years after they were bid to a 
bitter banquet : all slaine at the tole of a bell throughout 
the whole Island, which is called to this day the Sicilian 
Even-song. Sandys, Travailes, p. 185. 
toll 4 (tol), 17. t. [< L. tollere, lift up, take away: 
see tolerate.'] In law, to take away; vacate; 
annul. To toll an entry, in law, to annul and take 
away a right of entry. 
tollable (to'la-bl), a. [< toin + -able.'] Sub- 
ject to the payment of toll : as, tollable goods. 
tollage (to'laj), n. [< toin + -age.] Toll ; ex- 
action or payment of toll. 
By taxyng and toUage. Skelton, Colyn Cloute, 1. 364. 
By Leofric her Lord yet in base bondage held, 
The people from her marts by tollage who expell'd ; 
Whose Duchess, which desir'd this tribute to release, 
Their freedom often begg'd. 
Drayton, Polyolbion, xiii. 270. 
tollart, . [Also tollur: "so called because 
bounds are terminated by holes cut in the 
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earth, which must be renewed and visited once 
a year" (< Corn, toll, doll, a hole), "or because 
he receives the tolls or dues of the lord of the 
soil" (see toller^). Borlase (Jago).'] Same as 
boiiiiilcr, 3. 
toll-bait (tol'bat), n. Minced or chopped bait 
thrown overboard to toll, lure, or attract fish ; 
gurry-bait; tollings. It is usually chum or stosh, and 
is often salted to keep until wanted for use. The process 
of using toll-bait is often called chumming or chumming 
up. Also throw-bait. 
In the old style mackerel fishing, however, clams were 
chopped up (often with a mixture of menhaden)and sprin- 
kled overboard as toll-bait to attract the mackerel to the 
surface. Fisheries of U. S., V. ii. 694. 
toll-bar (tol'biir), 71. A bar or beam, or (now 
usually) a gate, thrown across a road or other 
passage at a tollhouse, for the purpose of pre- 
venting passengers, vehicles, cattle, etc., from 
passing without payment of toll ; a turnpike. 
[Prov. Eng. and Scotch.] 
It would often be nearly 1 o'clock A. M. before we reached 
the Newington toll-bar, which was our general point of 
separation. Harper's Mag., LXXX. 448. 
toll-book (tol'buk), n. A book in which horses, 
cattle, and goods to be sold at a fair were en- 
tered for payment of tolls. 
Some that were Maides 
E'en at Sun set, are now perhaps i' th' Toale-booke. 
C. Tourneur, Revenger's Tragedy, ii. 2. 
tollbooth (tol'both), n. [Also tolbooth; < ME. 
tolbothe (= 6. zollbiitle = Sw. tullbod = Dan. 
toldbod) ; < Mil + booth.'] If. A booth, stall, 
or office where tolls, taxes, or duties are col- 
lected. 
And whanne Jhesus passide fro thennus, he say a man, 
Matheu bi name, sittyuge in a tolbothe [at the receipt of 
custom, A. V. ; at the place of toll, R. V.]. 
Wydif, Mat. ix. 9. 
2. A town jail : so called with reference to the 
fact that the tollbooth or temporary hut of 
boards erected in fairs and markets, in which 
the customs or duties were collected, was often 
used as a place of confinement or detention for 
such as did not pay, or were chargeable with 
some breach of the law in buying or selling ; 
hence, any prison. 
The Maior refused to give them the keys of the Toll- 
booth or town-prison. 
Fuller, Hist. Cambridge, vii. 25. 
Adjacent to the tolbooth, or city jail of Edinburgh, is 
one of three churches into which the cathedral of St. Giles 
is now divided, called, from its vicinity, the Tolbooth 
Church. Scott, Heart of Mid-Lothian, ii. 
3. A town hall. Halliwett. [Prov. Eng.] 
tollbooth (tol'both), 17. t. [< tollbooth, .] To 
imprison in a tollbooth. Bp. Corbet. 
toll-bridge (toTbrij), . A bridge where toll 
is paid for passing over it. 
toll-collector (tol'ko-lek'tor), n. 1. A func- 
tionary who collects tolls and charges. 
The Toll Collector [of Chopping Wycombe] Is appointed 
by the common council, during pleasure, to receive the 
tolls and stallage of the market and fair, and the quit- rents 
of the corporation. Municip. Corp. Report, 1835, p. 43. 
2. A counter or registering device to indicate 
the number of persons passing a turnstile. 
3. In a grain-mill, a device attached to the feed 
to take out the toll, or miller's compensation. 
E. H. Eniglit. 
toll-corn (tol'korn), n. Corn taken at a mill in 
payment for grinding. 
toll-dish (tol'dish), n. A dish or bowl for mea- 
suring the toll in mills. See toll 1 (e). Also for- 
merly called toll-hop. 
The millers totte-dish also must be according to the 
standard. Now millers are to take for the tolle but the 
twentieth part, or 24 part, according to the strength of 
their water, and custome of the realm. 
Dalton, Countrey Justice (1620). (Nares.) 
" Take thy staff, Miller," he added, "and keep thy head," 
. . . the thieves in the meantime laughing and crying to 
their comrade, " Miller, beware thy toll-dish [humorously 
for head] ! " Scott, Ivanhoe, xi. 
toller 1 (to'ler), n. [< ME. tollere, tollare, < AS. 
tollere, tolnere = OFries. tolner = D. tollenaar = 
MLG. tollener, toller = OHG. zollandri, zolneri, 
MHG. zolnxre, zolner, Gr. zollner = Dan. tolder; 
as toHl + -er j .] 1. One who collects taxes ; a 
toll-gatherer. 
Taillours and tynkeres and tolleres in marketes, 
Masons and mynours and many other craftes. 
Piers Plowman. (B), Prol., 1. 220. 
2. In a grist-mill, an attachment for the auto- 
matic separation of the toll from the grist ; a 
toll-collector. E. H. Knight. 
toller 2 (to'ler), n. [Also toler; < toll? + -eri.] 
A variety of dog used in decoying ducks 
See tottingl, 3. [U. S.] 
toller 3 (to'ler), n. One who tolls a bell. 
toll-man 
tolleryt (to'ler-i), n. [< ME. "tollerie, tolrie ; 
< toJP + -ery.~] The taking of tolls; tax-col- 
lecting. 
Petre wente ajen to fishing, but Mathew not to his tolrie. 
Wyclif, Select Works (ed. Arnold), II. 138. 
Tolletan (tol'e-tan), . [ME. Tolletatie, < L. 
Toletanus, pertaining to Toletum, < Toletiun, a 
town in Spain, now Toledo.~] Of or pertain- 
ing to Toledo. Tolletan tables, same asAlphonsine 
tables (which see, under Alphonsine) : so called as being 
adapted to the city of Toledo. Also tables Tolctanes. 
His tables Tolletanes forth he brought 
Ful wel corrected, ne ther lakked nought, 
Chaucer, Franklin's Tale, 1. 546. 
toll-free (tol'fre), a. Free from the obligation 
of paying toll or duty. 
A remission of the feefarm of their city to the extent of 
5W. a year, in order that all persons visiting York might 
be made toll-free. J. Gairdner, Richard III., ii. 
Behould the Teeth, which Toul-free grinde the food, 
From whence themselues do reap more grief then good. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 7. 
toll-gate (tol'gat), n. A gate where toll is 
taken ; a toll-bar. 
It afforded a southern stranger a new kind of pleasure 
to travel so commodiously without the interruption of 
toll-gates. 
Johnson, Journey to Western Islands (Works,VIII. 211). 
toll-gatherer (t61'gaTH"er-er), 11. [< ME. tol- 
f/adere; < Mil + gatherer.'] One who collects 
tolls or duties. 
Matheu, that was of Judee, ... fro the office of a fol- 
gaderer . . . was clepid to God. Wyclif, Prol. to Mat, 
Toll-gatherers are ever ready to search and exact sound 
tribute. Sir T. Herbert, Travels (ed. 1638), p. 36. 
toll-hallt (tol'hal), n. [Early mod. E. also tole- 
Jtall; < toi + hall.'] Same as tollbooth. 
Skinners rew [row] reaching from the pillorie to the 
tolehall, or to the high crosse. 
Stanihurst, Descrip. of Ireland, iii. (Holinshed's 
[Chron., I.). 
toll-hopt (tol'hop), 7i. A toll-dish, 
tollhouse (tol 'nous), . [Formerly also tol- 
liouse; < ME. tolhous; < toll 1 + house 1 .'] 1. 
Same as tollbooth. [Now prov. Eng. and rare.] 
Our Sauyor Crist goyng by sawe the publycan named 
Leui, otherwyse Mathew, syttynge at the tolhous. 
Sir R. Guylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 49. 
May not this person have been connected with the tol- 
house or " tolbooth " (as our town halls were called in the 
Middle Ages)? In this place [Great Yarmouth] the name 
of tolhmise is still retained [1889]. 
If. and Q ,7th ser., VIII. 213. 
2. A house placed on or beside a road near a 
toll-gate, or at the end of a toll-bridge, where 
the toll-taker is stationed. 
tolling 1 (to'ling), 11. [Also toliiig; verbal n. of 
toll?, .] 1 . The use of toll-bait to attract fish ; 
the practice or method of drawing fish, as a 
school of mackerel, by means of gurry, chum, 
or stosh thrown overboard. The tolling is done 
by one of a crew while the others fish. 2. pi. 
Toll-bait. 3. A method of decoying or luring 
ducks. See the quotation. [U. S.] 
The system pureued on the Chesapeake Bay and the 
North Carolina Sounds, and known as toling, is the most 
successful. It is as follows : A small dog, an ordinary 
poodle, or one very much similar to that, white or brown 
in color, and called the toler breed, is kept for the pur- 
pose. It is trained to run up and down on the shore in 
the sight of the ducks, directed by the motion of his own- 
er's hand. The curiosity of the ducks is excited, and they 
approach the shore to discover the nature of the object 
which has attracted their attention. They raise their 
heads, look intently, and then start in a body for the 
shore. Dogs of Great Britain and America, p. 271. 
tolling 2 (to ' ling), n. [Formerly also toling ; 
verbal n. of tolfi, t'.] 1. The act of sounding 
a bell. See tolft. 2. The sound produced by 
a bell under single measured strokes of the 
clapper. 
It [the campanero) is especially celebrated for its ex- 
traordinary voice, which is compared with the tolling of a 
bell. Stand. Nat. Hist., IV. 475. 
The great superiority of tone of bells ringing in full 
swing over totting, and even of tolling over striking by a 
clock hammer, has been often noticed. 
Sir E. Beckett, Clocks, Watches, and Bells, p. 373. 
3. A peculiar bell-like sound said to be made 
by bees before they swarm. [Scotch.] 
Most observers also affirm that in the evening before 
swarming an uncommon humming or buzzing is heard in 
the hive, and a distinct sound from the queen, called toll- 
ing or calling. Mr. Hunter compares it to the notes of a 
pianoforte. Edin. Encyc., art. Bee, quoted in Jamieson. 
tolling-leyer (t6'ling-lev"er), 11. A lever or 
shank projecting from the top of the clapper, 
and pulled by means of a light rope, to sound 
the bell. It is designed to save the heavy swinging of 
the bell in a weak tower. Sir E. Beckett, Clocks, Watcher, 
and Bells, p. 371. 
toll-man (tol'man), . A toll-gatherer; the 
keeper of a toll-bar. 
