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Tole (tōl), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Toling.] [OE. tollen to draw, to entice; of uncertain origin. Cf. Toll to ring a bell.] To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait. [Written also toll.]
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Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at then he should, tole him on to by insensible degrees, till at last he masters the difficulty.
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Toll (?), v. t. [L. tollere. See Tolerate.] (O. Eng. Law) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
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Toll, v. t. [See Tole.]
1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
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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.
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3. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, “to toll a departed friend”. Shak.
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Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour. Beattie.
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4. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
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When hollow murmurs of their evening bells
Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells. Dryden.
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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.
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The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. Shak.
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Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. Pope.
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Toll, n. The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
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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.
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2. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
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3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
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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.
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Syn. -- Tax; custom; duty; impost.
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Toll (?), v. i.
1. To pay toll or tallage. [R.] Shak.
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2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.]
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Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice. Chaucer.
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No Italian priest
Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. Shak.
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Toll, v. t. To collect, as a toll. Shak.
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