toll

Definitions

1. 1transitive verb

   To take away; to vacate; to annul.

2. 2transitive verb

   To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

3. 3transitive verb

   To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.

4. 4transitive verb

   To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.

5. 5transitive verb

   To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

6. 6intransitive verb

   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. 7noun

   The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

8. 8noun

   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. 9noun

   A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

10. 10noun

    A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

11. 11intransitive verb

    To pay toll or tallage.

12. 12intransitive verb

    To take toll; to raise a tax.

13. 13transitive verb

    To collect, as a toll.

14. 14noun

    value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something

    "the cost in human life was enormous"

    "the price of success is hard work"

    Synonyms

    costprice
15. 15noun

    the sound of a bell being struck

    "saved by the bell"

    "she heard the distant toll of church bells"

    Synonyms

    bell
16. 16noun

    a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)

17. 17verb

    ring slowly

    "For whom the bell tolls"

18. 18verb

    charge a fee for using

    "Toll the bridges into New York City"