price, cost, toll
(noun) value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something; “the cost in human life was enormous”; “the price of success is hard work”; “what price glory?”
bell, toll
(noun) the sound of a bell being struck; “saved by the bell”; “she heard the distant toll of church bells”
toll
(noun) a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
toll
(verb) ring slowly; “For whom the bell tolls”
toll
(verb) charge a fee for using; “Toll the bridges into New York City”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Toll
A surname.
toll (plural tolls)
Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
A fee 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, etc.
(business) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
(US) A tollbooth.
(UK, legal, obsolete) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)
(transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
(ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
(transitive) To take as a toll.
To pay a toll or tallage.
toll (plural tolls)
The act or sound of tolling
toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)
(ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
(transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
(transitive) To announce by tolling.
toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)
(transitive, obsolete) To draw; pull; tug; drag.
(transitive) To tear in pieces.
(transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.
(transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
• (to lure animals): bait, lure
toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)
(legal, obsolete) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
(legal) To suspend.
toll
(African-American Vernacular) simple past tense and past participle of tell
Source: Wiktionary
Toll, v. t. Etym: [L. tollere. See Tolerate.] (O. Eng. Law)
Definition: To take away; to vacate; to annul.
Toll, v. t. Etym: [See Tole.]
1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
2. Etym: [Probably the same word as toll to draw, and at first meaning, to ring in order to draw people to church.]
Definition: 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.
3. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. Shak. Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour. Beattie.
4. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing. When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells. Dryden.
Toll, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tolling.]
Definition: 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. The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. Shak. Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. Pope.
Toll, n.
Definition: The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
Toll, n. Etym: [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.
2. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law)
Definition: A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. 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.
Syn.
– Tax; custom; duty; impost.
Toll, v. i.
1. To pay toll or tallage. [R.] Shak.
2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.] Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice. Chaucer. No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. Shak.
Toll, v. t.
Definition: To collect, as a toll. Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
