toll🔊

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.

Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

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

(by extension) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.

(US) A tollbooth.

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

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

To impose a fee for the use of.

To levy a toll on (someone or something).

To take as a toll.

To pay a toll or tallage.

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

(bell) (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.

To summon by ringing a bell.

To announce by ringing a bell.

(figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.

(obsolete) To draw; pull; tug; drag.

To tear in pieces.

To draw; entice; invite; allure.

To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).

(obsolete) To take away; to vacate; to annul.

(law) To suspend.

(AAVE) (ed-form)