| toll | |
| 1. n. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster. | |
| The war has taken its toll on the people. | |
| 2. n. 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. | |
| 3. n. (business) 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. | |
| 4. n. (US) A tollbooth. | |
| We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers. | |
| 5. n. (legal) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor. | |
| 6. n. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding. | |
| 7. v. To impose a fee for the use of. | |
| Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges. | |
| 8. v. To levy a toll on (someone or something). | |
| 9. v. To take as a toll. | |
| 10. v. To pay a toll or tallage. | |
| 11. n. The act or sound of tolling | |
| 12. v. To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly. | |
| Martin tolled the great bell every day. | |
| Ask not for whom the bell tolls. | |
| 13. v. To summon by ringing a bell. | |
| The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers. | |
| 14. v. To announce by tolling. | |
| The bells tolled the King’s death. | |
| 15. v. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; pull; tug; drag. | |
| 16. v. To tear in pieces. | |
| 17. v. To draw; entice; invite; allure. | |
| Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady". | |
| 18. v. To lure with bait (especially, fish and animals). | |
| 19. v. (legal, obsolete) To take away; to vacate; to annul. | |
| 20. v. (legal) To suspend. | |
| The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct. | |
| I done toll you for the last time. | |
