troll, trolling
(noun) angling by drawing a baited line through the water
Source: WordNet® 3.1
trolling
present participle of troll
trolling (plural trollings)
The act of one who trolls (in various senses).
Source: Wiktionary
Troll, n. Etym: [Icel. troll. Cf. Droll, Trull.] (Scand. Myth.)
Definition: 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. Troll flower. (Bot.) Same as Globeflower (a).
Troll, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trolling.] Etym: [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.]
1. To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn. To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye. Milton.
2. To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking. Then doth she troll to the bowl. Gammer Gurton's Needle. Troll the brown bowl. Sir W. Scott.
3. To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely. Will you troll the catch Shak. His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd, By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud. Hudibras.
4. To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
5. To fish in; to seek to catch fish from. With patient angle trolls the finny deep. Goldsmith.
Troll, v. i.
1. To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
2. To move rapidly; to wag. F. Beaumont.
3. To take part in trolling a song.
4. To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water. Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish. Bancroft.
Troll, n.
1. The act of moving round; routine; repetition. Burke.
2. A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round. 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.
3. A trolley. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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