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toll

Pronunciation: /təʊl/

The English word “toll” has 20 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. 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.
  2. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
  3. A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
  4. A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
  5. A tollbooth.
  6. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
  7. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
  8. The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.

verb

  1. To impose a fee for the use of.
  2. To levy a toll on (someone or something).
  3. To take as a toll.
  4. To pay a toll or tallage.
  5. To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
  6. To summon by ringing a bell.
  7. To announce by ringing a bell.
  8. To make a sound as if made by a bell.
  9. To draw; pull; tug; drag.
  10. To tear in pieces.
  11. To draw; entice; invite; allure.
  12. To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).

Etymology

From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-West Germanic *toll, *tolnu, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz, *tullō (“that which is counted or told, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“calculation, fraud”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tol (“toll”), Dutch tol (“toll”), German Zoll (“toll, duty, customs”), Danish told…

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