Toll
- Toll
- Toll Toll, n. [OE. tol, AS. toll; akin to OS. & D. tol, G.
zoll, OHG. zol, Icel. tollr, Sw. tull, Dan. told, and also to
E. tale; -- originally, that which is counted out in payment.
See {Tale} number.]
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.
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2. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law) A liberty to buy and sell within the
bounds of a manor.
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3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for
grinding.
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{Toll and team} (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a
market, and jurisdiction of villeins. --Burrill.
{Toll bar}, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats
at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers.
{Toll bridge}, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over
it.
{Toll corn}, corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill.
{Toll dish}, a dish for measuring toll in mills.
{Toll gatherer}, a man who takes, or gathers, toll.
{Toll hop}, a toll dish. [Obs.] --Crabb.
{Toll thorough} (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts
driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at
its cost. --Brande & C.
{Toll traverse} (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for
beasts driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for
passing over the private ground, bridge, ferry, or the
like, of another.
{Toll turn} (Eng. Law), a toll paid at the return of beasts
from market, though they were not sold. --Burrill.
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Syn: Tax; custom; duty; impost.
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Toll — Toll, v. t. [See {Tole}.] 1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See {Tole}. [1913 Webster] 2. [Probably the same word as toll to draw, and at first meaning, to ring in order to draw people to church.] To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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