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toll

/toʊl/

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What does toll mean?

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.
More meanings (21)

noun

  1. A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
  2. A tollbooth.
  3. The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.
  4. (obsolete) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
  5. (obsolete) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

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. (figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.
  9. To tear in pieces.
  10. To draw; entice; invite; allure.
  11. To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
  12. To suspend.
  13. simple past and past participle of tell
  14. (obsolete) To draw; pull; tug; drag.
  15. (obsolete) To take away; to vacate; to annul.

proper noun

  1. A surname.
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IPA pronunciation

/toʊl/

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When the Sunday-school hour was finished, the next morning, the bell began to toll, instead of ringing in the usual way.
Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer, CompleteProject Gutenberg ebook #74
There are few states, I suppose, which exact so severe a toll from one's nervous system as the ANTICIPATION of calamity.
Sax RohmerThe Insidious Dr. Fu ManchuProject Gutenberg ebook #173
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To Carthoris the strangest part of the battle had been the terrific toll taken by the bowmen with their relatively puny weapons.
Edgar Rice BurroughsThuvia, maid of MarsProject Gutenberg ebook #72
These germs of disease have taken toll of humanity since the beginning of things—taken toll of our prehuman ancestors since life began here.
H. G. (Herbert George) WellsThe war of the worldsProject Gutenberg ebook #36
This, however, is small compared with the tax and toll which this predatory horde inflicts upon the community on which it is quartered.
William BoothIn Darkest England, and the Way OutProject Gutenberg ebook #475