toll

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.

• Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged.

Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

• The war has taken its toll on the people.

A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.

• toll ore refining; toll manufacturing

A fee for using any kind of material processing service.broadly

• We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.

A tollbooth.US

• We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.

A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.UKobsolete

A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.Englandobsoleteregional

To impose a fee for the use of.transitive

• Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.

To levy a toll on (someone or something).ambitransitive

• No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.

To take as a toll.transitive

To pay a toll or tallage.

• I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him.

The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.

To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.ergative

• Martin tolled the great bell every day.
• Ask not for whom the bell tolls.

To summon by ringing a bell.transitive

• The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.

To announce by ringing a bell.transitive

• The bells tolled the King’s death.

To make a sound as if made by a bell.figuratively

• The chaplain's first mention of the name Yossarian! had tolled deep in his memory like a portentous gong.

To draw; pull; tug; drag.obsoletetransitive

To tear in pieces.transitive

To draw; entice; invite; allure.transitive

• Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady"

To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).transitive

To take away; to vacate; to annul.obsolete

To suspend.

• The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct.

simple past and past participle of tellform-ofparticiplepast

• I done toll you for the last time.