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Toll
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
(2):
(v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
(3):
(v. t.) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Toll'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/t/toll.html. 1828.
