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   Troll , n. [Icel. troll.  Cf. Droll, Trull.] (Scand. Myth.) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.
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   Troll flower. (Bot.) Same as Globeflower (a).
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   Troll , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trolled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trolling.] [OE. trollen to roll, F. trôler, Of. troller to drag about, to ramble; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. G. trollen to roll, ramble, sich trollen to be gone; or perhaps for trotler, fr. F. trotter to trot (cf. Trot.).  Cf. Trawl.]
   To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.
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   To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.
   Milton.
   
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   To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
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   Then doth she troll to the bowl.
   Gammer Gurton's Needle.
   
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   Troll the brown bowl.
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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   To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.
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   Will you troll the catch ?
   Shak.
   
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   His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd,
   By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud.
   Hudibras.
   
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   To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
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   To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.
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   With patient angle trolls the finny deep.
   Goldsmith.
   
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   Troll, v. i.
   To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
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   To move rapidly; to wag.
   F. Beaumont.
   
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   To take part in trolling a song.
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   To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.
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   Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish.
   Bancroft.
   
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   Troll, n.
   The act of moving round; routine; repetition.
   Burke.
   
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   A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
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   Thence the catch and troll, while “Laughter, holding both his sides,” sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life.
   Prof. Wilson.
   
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   A trolley.
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   Troll plate (Mach.), a rotative disk with spiral ribs or grooves, by which several pieces, as the jaws of a chuck, can be brought together or spread radially.
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