Toll

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  • intransitive verb. To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.
  • intransitive verb. To announce or summon by tolling.
  • intransitive verb. To sound in slowly repeated single tones.
  • noun. The act of tolling.
  • noun. The sound of a bell being struck.
  • noun. A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
  • noun. A charge for a service, such as a telephone call to another country.
  • noun. An amount or extent of loss or destruction, as of life, health, or property.
  • transitive verb. To exact as a toll.
  • transitive verb. To charge a fee for using (a structure, such as a bridge).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The sounding of a bell with slowly measured single strokes.
  • To cause (a bell) to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as for summoning public bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, for announcing a death, or to give solemnity to a funeral; specifically, to ring (a bell) by striking it with a hammer without swinging.
  • To give out or utter by tolling or striking, as the sound of a bell or a clock.
  • To call attention to or give notice of by slowly measured sounds of a bell; ring for or on account of.
  • To give out the slowly measured sounds of a bell when struck singly and at regular intervals, as in calling meetings, or at funerals, or to announce the death of a person.
  • To pay toll or tailage, as on a purchase.
  • To take toll; exact or levy toll; especially, to take a portion of grain as compensation for grinding.
  • To take as a part of a general contribution or tax; exact as a tribute.
  • To draw; pull; tug; drag.
  • To tear in pieces.
  • To draw; invite; entice; allure.
  • noun. A tax paid, or duty imposed, for some use or privilege or other reasonable consideration.
  • noun. The payment claimed by the owners of a port for goods landed or shipped there.
  • noun. The sum charged by the owners of a market or fair for goods brought to be sold there, or for liberty to break the soil for the purpose of erecting temporary structures.
  • noun. A portion of grain retained by a miller as compensation for grinding.
  • noun. A fixed charge made by those concerned in the maintenance of roads, streets, bridges, etc., for the passage, as at a toll-gate, of persons, goods, and cattle.
  • noun. A compensation for services rendered, especially for transportation or transmission: as, canal tolls, railway tolls, and other charges have raised the price of wheat.
  • noun. Synonyms Duty, Tribute, etc. See tax.
  • In law, to take away; vacate; annul.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To take away; to vacate; to annul.
  • transitive verb. To draw; to entice; to allure. See tole.
  • transitive verb. To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
  • transitive verb. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for.
  • transitive verb. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
  • intransitive verb. To pay toll or tallage.
  • intransitive verb. To take toll; to raise a tax.
  • noun. The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
  • noun. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
  • noun. the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins.
  • noun. a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers.
  • noun. a bridge where toll is paid for passing over it.
  • noun. corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill.
  • noun. a dish for measuring toll in mills.
  • noun. a man who takes, or gathers, toll.
  • noun. a toll dish.
  • noun. toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. a toll paid at the return of beasts from market, though they were not sold.
  • Word Usage
    "According to Texas law, not paying the toll is a misdemeanor offense."
    Form
    tolled  toller  tolling  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Levy  fee  impose  knell  ring  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Cole  Dole  Kohl  Nicole  Ole  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    variant
    tole  
    verb-form
    tolled  tolling  tolls