toll

UK [tʰɔwɫ] US [tʰo(ʊ̯)ɫ]
verb 14noun 6name 1

Definitions

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.

Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged.

2

Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

The war has taken its toll on the people.

3

A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.

toll ore refining; toll manufacturing

4

A fee for using any kind of material processing service.

We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.

5

A tollbooth.

We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.

verb

1

To impose a fee for the use of.

Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.

2

To levy a toll on (someone or something).

No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.

3

To take as a toll.

4

To pay a toll or tallage.

I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him.

noun

1

The act or sound of ringing a bell, especially slowly, as with a church or cemetery bell.

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