Thesaurus: toll

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1. v. t. To take away; to vacate; to annul.
2. v. t. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
3. v. t. To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
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.