Results for toll

Definitions of toll:

part of speech: verb intransitive

To sound or ring slowly, as a bell.

part of speech: noun

A tax for the liberty of passing over a bridge or road, selling goods in a market, etc.: a portion of grain taken by a miller for grinding.

part of speech: verb transitive

To cause to sound, as a bell: to strike, or signal by striking.

part of speech: verb transitive

To ring with slow, heavy strokes; announce by slow strokes; as, to toll the hour; to ring slow, even strokes for, as during a funeral; as, to toll a departed bishop.

part of speech: noun

A duty or tax imposed on travellers or goods passing along a bridge or a public road; a tax paid, or duty imposed, for some liberty or privilege; a miller's compensation for grinding corn.

part of speech: noun

The sound of a bell slowly and evenly repeated, as during funerals; a duty or tax on travelers or goods passing along a public road or bridge; a tax or duty paid for some privilege; pay taken for services; as, a miller takes toll for grinding grain.

part of speech: verb

To stroke or ring slowly, as a bell to invite the people into church; to sound a bell with slow uniform strokes in order to announce a death, or to give solemnity to a funeral.

part of speech: noun

The sound of a bell when tolling.

part of speech: noun

The slow repeated sounding of a bell at short intervals.

part of speech: verb intransitive

To sound, as a large bell.

Usage examples for toll:

• Will ye pay, or toll it? "Jan of the Windmill", Juliana Horatia Ewing

• The guardian then, I said, must be required to take the longer circuit, and toll at learning as well as at gymnastics, or he will never reach the highest knowledge of all which, as we were just now saying, is his proper calling. "Plato's Republic", Plato

• Thought should be toll free. "Project Gutenberg History of The Netherlands, 1555-1623, Complete", John Lothrop Motley

• The penalty for threatening the toll collector or forcibly passing through was 5 pounds for the first offense, and 10 pounds for the second offense with imprisonment for one year for those who couldn't pay. "Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed.", S. A. Reilly