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Toll
King James Dictionary
or 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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The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Toll'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/t/toll.html.
