Definition of toll

• v. t. - To take away; to vacate; to annul.
• v. t. - To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
• v. t. - To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
• v. t. - To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.
• v. t. - To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
• v. i. - 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.
• n. - The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
• n. - 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.
• n. - A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
• n. - A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
• v. i. - To pay toll or tallage.
• v. i. - To take toll; to raise a tax.
• v. t. - To collect, as a toll.