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TOLL, n. Gr. toll, custom, and end, exit, from cutting off Eng. dole diolam, to sell, to exchange, to pay toll. This is from the root of deal. See Deal.

1. 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.
2. A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

TOLL, To pay toll or tallage.

1. To take toll, as by a miller.

TOLL, 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.

Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell.

TOLL, supra. To cause a bell to sound with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated, as for summoning public bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, or for announcing the death of a person, or to give solemnity to a funeral. Tolling is a different thing from ringing.

TOLL, L. tollo. To take away to vacate to annul a law term.

1. To draw. See Tole.

TOLL, n. A particular sounding of a bell.

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Entry for 'Toll'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​t/toll.html.
 
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