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toll
1[ tohl ]
noun
- a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge.
- the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity:
The toll was 300 persons dead or missing.
- a tax, duty, or tribute, as for services or use of facilities.
- a payment made for a long-distance telephone call.
- (formerly, in England) the right to take such payment.
- a compensation for services, as for transportation or transmission.
- grain retained by a miller in payment for grinding.
verb (used with object)
- to collect (something) as toll.
- to impose a tax or toll on (a person).
verb (used without object)
- to collect toll; levy toll.
toll
2[ tohl ]
verb (used with object)
- to cause (a large bell) to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as for summoning a congregation to church, or especially for announcing a death.
- to sound or strike (a knell, the hour, etc.) by such strokes:
In the distance Big Ben tolled five.
- to announce by this means; ring a knell for (a dying or dead person).
- to summon or dismiss by tolling.
- to lure or decoy (game) by arousing curiosity.
- to allure; entice:
He tolls us on with fine promises.
verb (used without object)
- to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as a bell.
noun
- the act of tolling a bell.
- one of the strokes made in tolling a bell.
- the sound made.
toll
3[ tohl ]
verb (used with object)
- to suspend or interrupt, as a statute of limitations.
toll
1/ təʊl; tɒl /
noun
- an amount of money levied, esp for the use of certain roads, bridges, etc, to cover the cost of maintenance
- ( as modifier )
toll road
toll bridge
- loss or damage incurred through an accident, disaster, etc
the war took its toll of the inhabitants
- Also calledtollage (formerly) the right to levy a toll
- Also calledtoll charge a charge for a telephone call beyond a free-dialling area
toll
2/ təʊl /
verb
- to ring or cause to ring slowly and recurrently
- tr to summon, warn, or announce by tolling
- to decoy (game, esp ducks)
noun
- the act or sound of tolling
Word History and Origins
Origin of toll1
Origin of toll2
Origin of toll3
Word History and Origins
Origin of toll1
Origin of toll2
Idioms and Phrases
see take its toll .Example Sentences
The death toll, which experts believe has been significantly undercut by secret burials, stands at 7,905.
In France, the death toll has been lower: One young man killed in the city of Nantes.
The latest reported death toll is 80 children and 46 adults, but that is expected to rise.
While the look worked for some, the combination of heat and chemicals took a toll on the hair of others.
“The amount of literal brainwork needed to do his job too such a toll on him that it sent him to an early grave,” Goode says.
On this the royal band of music would strike up its liveliest airs, and a great bell would toll its evening warning.
Jack's keeper offered the right toll, but the toll-bar man would not take it.
A country girl, riding by a turnpike-road without paying toll, the gate-keeper hailed her and demanded his fee.
Sixty, nay fifty, years ago, there were six toll-houses and turnpike bars between London and Portsmouth.
On leaving Conway we crossed the suspension bridge, paying a goodly toll for the privilege.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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