Bible Dictionaries
Toll

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

(2):

(v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.

(3):

(v. t.) To take away; to vacate; to annul.

(4):

(v. t.) To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.

(5):

(v. t.) To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

(6):

(v. i.) 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.

(7):

(n.) The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

(8):

(n.) 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.

(9):

(n.) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

(10):

(n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

(11):

(v. i.) To pay toll or tallage.

(12):

(v. i.) To take toll; to raise a tax.

(13):

(v. t.) To collect, as a toll.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Toll'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​t/toll.html. 1828.