Toll

v. t.	1.	(O. Eng. Law) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
	1.	To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
	2.	To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
	3.	To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. 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.
v. i.	1.	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. [imp. & p. p. Tolled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Tolling.] The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. - Shak. Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. - Pope.
n.	1.	The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
	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) 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. Toll bar a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers. - Burrill. 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. Toll thorough (Eng. Law) toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. - Crabb. 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. - Brande & C. Toll turn (Eng. Law) a toll paid at the return of beasts from market, though they were not sold. - Burrill.
v. i.	1.	To pay toll or tallage.
	2.	To take toll; to raise a tax. Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice. - Chaucer. No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. - Shak.
v. t.	1.	To collect, as a toll.

Noun	1.	toll - a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
	2.	toll - 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?" Synonyms: cost, price
	3.	toll - the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she heard the distant toll of church bells" Synonyms: bell
Verb	1.	toll - ring slowly; "For whom the bell tolls"
	2.	toll - charge a fee for using; "Toll the bridges into New York City"

TOLL, contracts. A sum of money for the use of something, generally applied to the consideration which is paid for the use of a road, bridge, or the like, of a public nature. Toll is also the compensation paid to a miller for grinding another person's grain.
     2. The rate of taking toll for grinding is regulated by statute in most of the states. See 2 Hill. Ab. oh. 17; 6 Ad. & Ell. N. S. 31,; 6 Q. B. 3 1.

TO TOLL, estates, rights. To bar, defeat, or take away; as to toll an entry into lands, is to deny. or take away the right of entry.

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