tolln.1
/təʊl/, U.S. /toʊl/ 1. † b. The taking of toll or tribute; the office of a tax-collector. Obsolete.
a. Originally: a general term for: (a) a definite payment exacted by a king, ruler, or lord, or by the state or the local authority, by virtue of sovereignty or lordship, or in return for protection; more especially, (b) for permission to pass somewhere, do some act, or perform some function; or (c) as a share of the money passing, or profit accruing, in a transaction; a tax, tribute, impost, custom, duty.In obsolete exc. Historical; in retained in special senses (see 2); in still in vague or rhetorical use: see quots. 1832 –1909.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun]
tollc1000
trewagec1380
trowc1380
finec1436
seigniorage fine1800
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > [noun]
yieldc950
tollc1000
tolne1023
mailOE
lotlOE
ransomc1325
tail1340
pensiona1387
contribution1387
scat gild14..
due1423
responsionc1447
impositionc1460
devoirs1503
excisea1513
toloney1517
impost1569
cast1597
levy1640
responde1645
reprise1818
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun]
tollc1000
custom1389
average1451
prest1472
impost1569
customage1595
averene1625
consumption tax1694
dogana1714
sayer1751
excise duties-
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 25 Hwæt þincð þe symon, æt hwam nymað cyningas gafol oððe toll?
1050–1100 in Earle Land Charters 273 Æilsig bohte anne wifmann..& hire sunu..mid healfe punde..& sealde Æilsig portgereua[n] et Maccosse hundredes mann iiii. pengas to tolle.
a1100 Aldhelm Glosses i. 1455 in A. S. Napier Old Eng. Glosses (1900) 39 Fiscale tributum, cynelic toll.
a1100 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1086 (Laud) Hy arerdon unrihte tollas, and manige oðre unrihte hi dydan.
c1100 in Earle Land Ch. 262 Her kyð on þissere boc Leowine..&..his wif gebohton Ælfilde..to feower & sixtuge penegon, & Ælfric Hals nam toll..for þæs kynges hand.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. i. 98 Boxes..I-bounden with yre, To vnder-take þe tol [v.rr. tolle, tool] of vntrewe sacrifice.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28438 Toll and tak, and rent o syse, Wit-halden i haue wit couettise.
a1400 K. Alis. (Bodl.) 1760 Þat ich shal of olde & ȝonge Of þis midlerde tol afonge.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xiii. 149 The tolle & the custom of his [Emperor of Persia's] marchantes is with outen estymacyoun to ben nombred.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 495/2 Tol, or custome, guidagia,..petagium, toloneum.
c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 549 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 206 Þis mathow..wes tollar, & toll tuke.
1483 Cath. Angl. 389/2 A Tolle,..talliagium.
1485 Rolls of Parl. VI. 345/2 The Graunte of the Tolle of oure Towne of Knyghton.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ezra iv. 13 Then shal not they geue tribute, toll, and yearly custome.
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Si/1 Toule, census.
1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. II. iii. i. sig. Bb.vjv/2 These Publicans were such as liued vppon the publique toll and customes which they had farmed at the Romans hands.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xix. 438 Hereby the same commodity must pay a new tole at every passage into a new trade.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 57 Honour and homage, tribute, tax and toll, From many an inland town and haven large.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 445 All fines, all forfeitures went to Sunderland. On every grant toll was paid to him.
1895 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law I. 648 A large part of the borough's revenue was derived from tolls, if we use that term in its largest sense to include ‘passage, pontage, lastage, stallage, bothage, ewage, tronage, scavage’ and the like.
1909 Daily News 14 Sept. 4/2 Sir William Harcourt wished to establish the rule that property should pay toll once every generation, and he succeeded in establishing it.
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c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 288 Oðer [is] þæt man ðurh toll feoh gegadrige.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 468 Matheus aras þærrihte fram his tolle, and filigde ðam Hælende.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 468 He hine geseah sittan æt tolle.
c. In the obsolete law phrase sac and sóc, toll and team, etc. (see sac n.1, team n. 8b, 8c): The right to ‘toll’ included (among others) in the grant of a manor by the crown; see quot. 1895.
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society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > right of taking toll or taxes
toll1017
1017–23 Charter of Ælfweard Abbot in Earle Land Charters 236 And toll and team sy agifen into þam mynstre.
1046–60 Charter of Ealdred Bishop (Kemble No. 805) Ut habeant et possideant iure aecclesiastico perpetua haereditate, cum saca et socne, tolle et teame, reditibus et campis [etc.].
1046–60 Charter Edw. Conf. (Kemble No. 829 , later copy) And icc an heom eft alswa ðat hi habben ðarto sacc and socne, toll and team, infangeneðef and flemenesfermð [etc.].
a1066 in Earle Land Charters (1888) 343 Ic cyðe eow ðæt ic habbe gegeofen Criste..and Ælfwine abbod into Ramesege saca and socna, tol and team, and infangenðeof.
1090–1135 Laws of Wm. I c. 2 §3 E cil francs hom ki ad e sache e soche e toll e tem e infangentheof, se il est enplaidé [etc.].
1114–18 Laws Hen. I c. 20 §2 Archiepiscopi, episcopi, comites..sacam et socnam habent, tol et theam et infongentheaf.
1130–35 Laws Edw. Conf. c. 22 §2 Tol, quod nos vocamus theloneum, scilicet libertatem emendi et vendendi in terra sua.
c1150 Laws of William I in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. ii. §3. 494 E cil francs hom ki ad e sache e soche e toll e tem e infangentheof, se il est enplaidé [etc.].
a1200 ( Writ of Cnut, St. Paul's, London (Sawyer 992) in S. E. Kelly Charters of St. Paul's, London (2004) 204 Ic ciþe eow þæt ic wylle þæt hig beon heora sace here & socna [prob. read & here socna] weorðe, tolles & teames, binnan tid & buton tid.
12.. Reg. Maj. i. ii, in Scot. Stat. (1844) I. App. i. 234 Qui habent et tenent terras suas cum soko et sako furca et fossa toll et them et infangandthefe et vtfangandthefe. [ Skene tr. Judges..quha hes power to hald their courts, with sock, sack, gallous, and pit, toll, and thame, infang-thief, and outfang-thief.]
c1210 ( Leges Hen. I xx. §2 in L. J. Downer Leges Henrici Primi (1972) 122 Archiepiscopi..et alie potestates in terris proprii potestatus [read potentatus] sui sacam et socnam habent, tol et theam et infongenþeaf.
c1250 Expos. Vocab. in Placita de Quo Warranto 511 Tol..pro voluntate sua tallagium de villanis suis.
a1400 Reg. Maj. i. c. 2 in Acts Parl. Scot. (1844) I. 598/1 Qui habent et tenent terras suas cum soko et sako, furca et fossa, toll et them, et infangandthefe.
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 224 Pilgrimes..suld nouthir pay toll ne teme, aucht na custume na payage, quhill thai ar on thair voyage.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione (at cited word) He quha is infeft with Toll, is custome free, and payis na custome.
1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Ttt4 Toll, aliâs Tholl..hath in our common lawe two significations: first it is vsed for a libertie to buy and sell within the precincts of a maner... Bracton..interpreteth [it] to be a libertie as well to take as to be free from Tolle.
1657 W. Mure Hist. Rowallane in Wks. (1898) II. 241 The Mures..being free Barones yrof, holding in cheife of the crowne, infeft cum furca et fossa, sock et sack, thole et theam, infang theif et outfang theif.
1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 156 A charter of Edred grants to the monastery of Croyland soc, sac, toll, team and infangthef.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xviii. 208 One among them, whether by seniority or by hereditary right, further enjoyed the profitable privileges of toll and team.
1895 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law I. 566 Toll is sometimes the right to take toll, sometimes the right to be free of toll; but often it is merely the right to tallage one's villeins.
2. Specific uses.† b. Rent paid for a house, mill, etc. Obsolete.1870 J. C. Duval Adventures Big-Foot Wallace p. xv Wallace joined Colonel Hays's regiment..and was with it at the storming of Monterey, where he says he took ‘full toll’ out of the Mexicans for killing his brother and cousin..in 1836.a1882 D. G. Rossetti Introd. Sonn. in House of Life [Whether] In Charm's palm it pay the toll to Death.1909 Blackwood's Mag. July 19/2 Nott's gallant division..paid its toll of killed and wounded.1925 Daily Mail The toll of the road.1929 Daily Express 7 Nov. 2/3 Miners' members were artists in presenting the toll of the mines in its most impressive form.1959 Listener 6 Aug. 222/1 A thoroughly well-intentioned programme aimed at reducing the toll on the roads.1962 E. Roosevelt Autobiogr. ii. xv. 123 The war had taken from France a heavy toll of her young men from 1914 to 1918.1972 N. Freeling Long Silence ii. 189 In fact it had been very hardbought, some of the winnings, taking fearful tolls of nerve, straining every atom of him.1974 F. Forsyth Dogs of War xiv. 264 He felt tired and flat; the strain of the past thirty days was taking its toll.1974 C. Ryan Bridge too Far iii. ii. 147 Forty-five patients were dead (the toll would increase to over eighty), and countless more were wounded.1981 Times 9 June 6/3 The death toll in the train disaster..could be more than 1,000.1982 S. Brett Murder Unprompted xii. 113 The obscurity of the play, and the..lack of star names—all the elements which pessimists had predicted would work against the show—were now beginning to take their toll.
a. A charge made for some service rendered:† (a) for passage in a ship, fare. Obsolete.
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c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxx. 168 Þa..þæs scypes hlaford..gyrnde þæs scyp-tolles, ac ða hi nan þincg næfdon to syllanne, þa gyrnde he þæs wifes for þam tolle.
(b) A proportion of the grain or flour taken by the miller in payment for grinding. ? Obsolete or dialect.
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c1386 [implied in: G. Chaucer Prol. 562 Wel koude he stelen corn, and tollen thries And yet he hadde a thombe of gold pardee. (at toll v.3 1)].
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 496/1 Tol, of myllarys, multa.
?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlix Mete it to the myll & fro the myll and se that thou haue thy mesure agayne besyde the tole.
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall 3 Make meale of it, and take large tole to the enriching of the Tolbot.
1638 J. Penkethman Artachthos sig. Giv If the Baker buy corne unground by the Quarter..he hath 68 l. Troy to the bushell, and is to pay the Millers tolle.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Toll,..the quantity of meal kept by the miller for grinding another's corn.
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c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xix. 253 Hit ne gedafnað þæt man do godes hus anre mylne g elic for lyðrum tolle.
c. A charge for the privilege of bringing goods for sale to a market or fair, or of setting up a stall.
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c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6646 Her beoð chæpmen icumen. of oðere londen..heo habbeoð ibroht to me tol for heore æhte.
c1460 Oseney Regr. 10 Be quyte in all mercates of tol i-axid of thynges i-bowghte or solde.
1500 Reg. Privy Seal Scotl. I. 68/1 That the said erle..have tholl and uther small custumez of the fairis.
1567 Expos. Termes of Law (1579) 178 b/2 Tolle or Tolne, is most properlye a payment vsed in Cities, townes, markets & faires for goods and cattel brought thither to bee bought & solde.
1587 in J. Harland House & Farm Accts. Shuttleworths (1856) I. 41 Foure oxen in Prestone xjli xvs iiijd; towlle for the said besste, viijd.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) III. 273 Toll is not of right incident to a fair or market, and can only be claimed by special grant from the Crown, or by prescription; and if the toll be unreasonable, the grant will be void.
1874 H. Fawcett Man. Polit. Econ. (ed. 4) iv. vii. 590 A market toll is paid for the accommodation which a market provides.
d. A charge for the right of passage along a road (at a turnpike or toll-gate: now abolished in Great Britain), along a river or channel, over a bridge or ferry; formerly also, through the gate or door of a building.
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1477–8 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/496/17) Omnes summas monete..vel Toles pro dictis edificacionibus..solutas pro cariagio petrarum maeremii..per terram vel per aquam.
1498 Coventry Leet Bk. 592 Howe the Citezenis of Couentre were trobled be there merchandisez in Bristoll, Gloucestre, & Worcestre & compelled to pay tholl & oþer customez contrarie to their liberteez.
1505 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 603 Exceptis theoloneo finis pontis, viz. le tholl de le Brig-and de Are.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cciiiv In this yere was an olde Tolle demaunded in Flaunders of Englysh men, called the Tolle of the Hounde, which is a Ryuer and a passage. The Tolle is .xii. pence of a Fardell.
1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. C4v At his entrance he must pay them towle.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 56 Here those which carried any merchandise paid tole.
1634 Althorp MS in J. N. Simpkinson Washingtons (1860) App. p. xiv For toale at Thrapston bridge 00 00 02.
1663 Act 15 Chas. II c. 1 §5 Summes of money in the name of Toll or Custome, to be paid for all such Horses, Carts, Coaches, Waggons, Droves, and Gangs of Cattell, as..shall passe, bee ledd, or droven, in or through the said waye.
1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 236/2 A Toll is here paid by all vessels navigating the Rhine, to the Duke of Nassau, the only chieftain remaining on the river who still exercises this feudal privilege.
1840 W. Howitt Visits to Remarkable Places 1st Ser. 234 The tolls at the doors of St. Paul's and the Tower have been relaxed.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation Introd. 33 The statute..imposed tolls, or duties collected at toll gates (called turnpikes), on all travellers along the great north road.
1883 ‘Ouida’ Wanda I. 61 With a right to take toll on the ferry.
1948 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Nov. 14 (caption) All tolls for travel across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge will be paid at booths on the 1000-foot toll plaza on the Western Shore approach to the bridge.
e. A charge for the right of landing or shipping goods at a port; formerly also, a customs duty. Obsolete exc. Historical.
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1680 R. Morden Geogr. Rectified (1685) 132 The place where Ships pay Tole.
1884 S. Dowell Hist. Taxation in Eng. I. iv. v. 83 Of wine, a toll in the strictest sense of the term was taken by the king's officer from every ship having in cargo ten casks or more, on the arrival of the ship at a port in England.., unless the toll formed the subject of a composition in the way of a money payment.
f. A charge made for transport of goods, esp. by railway or canal. (Arising out of d.)
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1889 Standard 21 Mar. Railway projectors were empowered to charge ‘tolls’, not exceeding a specified sum, for the use of their roads. Out of these ‘tolls’ rates were, in a manner, evolved, covering every service.
g. with defining words: through toll (also toll through), thorough toll, toll traverse, turn toll (also toll turn), see quots.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > toll for passing through > [noun]
through-toll1228
passagea1325
pedagea1382
peage1448
podagea1450
passage money1474
thorough toll1567
toll traverse1567
rahdar1623
rahdari1627
gate-penny1693
rahdarage1698
passage-gelt1712
traverse1754
likin1862
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > duty on transport of goods > [noun] > on animal driven to be sold
turn toll1567
1567 Expos. Termes of Law (1579) 179/1 Through tolle, is where a Towne prescribes to haue tol for euery beast that goeth through their Towne.
1567 Expos. Termes of Law (1579) 179/1 Tolle trauers, that is where one claimeth to haue a halfepeny, or such like toll of euery beast that is driuen ouer his ground.
1567 Expos. Termes of Law (1579) 179/1 Turne tolle..is where toll is paied for beasts that are dryuen to bee solde, although that they bee not solde.
1636 W. Prynne Remonstr. against Shipmoney 8 This Tax..layes a farre greater charge on the Subject then any new office, Murage, Toll-travers, or thorough-toll.
1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. (at cited word) Toll-through..Toll-travers..; and Toll-turn, which is Toll paid at the return of Beasts from Fair or Market, though they were not sold.
1827 E. Mackenzie Descr. & Hist. Acct. Newcastle II. 649 The claim of toll thorough..is made by the corporation upon all goods..of non-freemen, brought into or carried out of the town.
1911 G. R. Hill in Halsbury Laws Eng. XVI. 62 A toll-thorough is independent of any ownership of the soil by the original grantee, the consideration necessary to support it being usually the liability to repair the particular highway or bridge.
1911 G. R. Hill in Halsbury Laws Eng. XVI. 62 A toll-traverse is a toll taken in respect of the original ownership of the land crossed by the public.
h. A charge for a telephone call. Usually attributive (see also toll call n. at Compounds below, toll-free adj.). North American.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > [noun] > for telephone call
toll1886
society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > charge for telephone call
toll1886
1886 Jrnl. Soc. Telegraph-engineers & Electricians 15 275 Another term also very largely used in America is ‘toll line working’; i.e., communication between town and town..which is paid for by tolls per message, and not by annual subscription such as usually occurs in local exchanges.
1912 Thiess & Joy Toll Telephone Pract. i. 3 In Bell practice the terms ‘suburban’ and ‘toll’ are often used synonymously, but suburban business is always short haul..while toll business may be long haul but not exceeding 100 miles. The term ‘long distance’ in Bell practice implies any haul exceeding 100 miles and in many cases the toll and the long distance business are handled at different switchboards... The terms ‘toll’ and ‘long distance’ do not have this distinction in independent practice and are commonly synonymous.
1912 Thiess & Joy Toll Telephone Pract. iv. 43 When a toll subscriber desires to call central, he will operate his generator.
1912 Thiess & Joy Toll Telephone Pract. iv. 44 If the jack of the subscriber wanted terminates in the toll position.., the toll operator will simply insert her calling plug and ring.
1921 Telegraph & Telephone Jrnl. 7 180/2 It was eventually decided to remove all the short trunk lines (i.e. up to 25 miles in length) from the Trunk Exchange and to connect them to one or more Toll Exchanges.
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 11 July 16/1 The British Columbia Telephone Co...built the first toll line to Nanaimo.
1933 K. B. Miller Telephone Theory & Pract. III. xi. 466 Telephone traffic between subscribers whose lines are connected to different local exchanges is ordinarily called ‘toll traffic’... Toll traffic is generally classified as ‘short haul’ or ‘suburban’ for distances up to the neighborhood of about 50 miles, and ‘long haul’ or ‘long distance’ for connections between more widely separated points.
1970 N. Armstrong et al. First on Moon xiv. 363 I had a telephone call yesterday. The toll wasn't..as great as the one I made to you fellows..on the moon.
1978 Sci. Amer. June 90/2 It may also provide paths between trunks, but this task is usually performed by special exchanges called toll exchanges.
i. figurative. Formerly frequently in the toll of the road. (Cf. tribute n., similarly used.) Frequently in to take its toll (esp. of death, loss, or injury).
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c1480 (a1400) St. Agatha 256 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 365 Þane bad he..brynnand cole straw in þe floure..& nakyt þare-one hire rol, til scho of ded had quyt þe tol.
Compounds
See also toll-book n., tollbooth n., toll-dish n., etc.† toll-bell n. Obsolete a bell rung at the close of the collection of toll at a market.† toll-cote n. Obsolete a toll-collector's cottage or shed.† toll-customer n. [customer n. 1] Obsolete a toll- or tax-gatherer.† toll-fat n. Obsolete ? a vessel for toll-corn (in quot. 1222 a measure of capacity).† toll-hall n. Obsolete ? = tollbooth n. 2, guildhall, town hall.† toll-hoop n. [hoop n.1 5] Obsolete = toll-dish n.† toll-master n. Obsolete the master of a toll-office.† toll mere n. [mere n.2] Obsolete the boundary within which a local toll is payable.† toll-pin n. Obsolete (?) a cylindrical stick used as a strake for the toll-dish.† toll-reeve n. Obsolete an officer to whom tolls were payable.† toll-shop n. Obsolete = toll-house n. 2.† toll-stock n. (also tolstok) Obsolete ? = toll-pin n.
toll-bar n. [bar n.1] a barrier (usually a gate) across a road or bridge, where toll is taken; in Scotland formerly often applied to the toll-collector's house.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > toll-barrier
bar1540
turnpike1678
sidebar1760
toll-gate1773
barrier1804
toll-bar1813
pike1820
octroi1861
pay wicket1895
péage1973
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > across a road > at which tolls collected
toll-bar1813
pike1820
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road > turnpike or toll-road > barrier on
turnpike1678
toll-gate1773
toll-bar1813
péage1973
1813 Examiner 19 Apr. 243/1 The only light..was that shed by the toll-bar lamp.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Toll-bar, a turnpike. [Toll-bar in Calr. Inq. P.M. V. 389, in a docmt. of 1315 is a misreading.]
1858 R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxxvii [He] trotted across the bridge,..and was speedily brought up at a toll-bar on the far side.
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society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > ringing of bells as signal > [noun] > other signal bells
moot-bellc1210
guild-bell1555
watch-bell1577
toll-bell1736
joy-bells1808
bear bell1975
1736 F. Drake Eboracum i. vi. 219 No corn to be carried out of this market till the toll be gathered, and that the toll-bell be rung.
toll-bridge n. a bridge at which toll is charged for passage.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [noun] > bridge > toll-bridge
toll-bridge1751
turnpike bridge1840
1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Sheperton A wooden toll-bridge over the Thames to Walton.
toll call n. originally, † a telephone call which was not a local call and for which an individual charge was therefore made; in later (not British) use, a long-distance call, or a call between different telephone areas.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > call or message > types of
personal call1843
local call1882
ringback1895
long distance1902
private call1907
trunk-call1910
toll call1912
callback1914
overflow1924
picture message1929
alarm call1966
text message1977
text1990
1912 Thiess & Joy Toll Telephone Pract. i. 3 Common usage among telephone men has led to the general classification of telephone service under four headings, as follows: local, suburban, toll and long distance... Any telephone call which is not local bears a special or toll charge and broadly may be termed a toll call; hence it seems proper to use the term ‘toll’ to embrace all service of this class, whether it be suburban, toll, or long distance in the narrow sense.
1928 E. Wallace Again Three Just Men x. 223 The telephone-bell rang. The voice of the porter informed him that a toll call had come through.
1965 S. T. Ollivier Petticoat Farm vi. 88 This ring was a toll call and would be costing a fortune.
1977 D. Anthony Stud Game vii. 45 Grant must have called the Bishop girl from here. She lives in Santa Monica, which makes it a toll call.
toll-clerk n. a clerk who keeps a record of tolls collected, e.g. at a market.
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society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > others
secretary14..
remembrancer1523
rapporteur1653
tally-writer1786
messenger1793
memorandist1866
toll-clerk1878
shorthand typist1901
progress clerk1916
filing clerk1922
secretary bird1969
1878 R. Braithwaite Life & Lett. W. Pennefather xi. 245 A young man who had been long employed as toll-clerk.
1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 Jan. 6/2 The toll clerk of Billingsgate Market.
toll-collector n. (a) a person who collects toll, esp. the tolls at a turnpike, a market, etc.; (b) a device for indicating the number of persons passing a turnstile or gate and paying toll; (c) a device in the feeder of a mill for separating the toll of grain.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > collector of duty on goods
tollerc1000
tolnerc1050
toll-gatherer1382
customer1389
toll-reeve1433
pennytollerc1450
toll-taker1555
toll-farmer1556
publicana1563
custom officer1644
exciseman1647
toll-mastera1649
custom house officer1654
toll-customera1681
customs officer1705
hoppo1711
ride officer1799
toll-collector1822
excisor1835
customs agent1838
custom-houser1865
1822 Act 3 Geo. IV c. 126 §22 If the Owner or Driver of any Waggon..shall resist any Gate Keeper or Toll Collector, in weighing the same,..[he] shall forfeit and pay..Five Pounds.
1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Toll-collector. 1. A counter at a turnstile or gate to indicate the number of persons passing. 2. A device attached to the feed of a grain-mill to subtract the toll.
1903 H. B. Swete in Expositor Aug. 196 The rich and well-hated chief of the Jericho toll-collectors.
toll-corn n. corn retained by a miller as toll.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of grinding corn
toll-corn12..
mill mail1287
multure?a1300
knaveshipa1350
multure corn1546
moliture1656
intown multure1818
12.. Reading Cartul. (Harl. 1708, lf. 107) Ego Willelmus babbe dedi..abbati et conuentui de Radinges vnam dimidiam summan bladi, scilicet de tolcorn de molendino de Homstalle.
1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) sig. Iii1v Tolcorn, Corn taken for Toll at grinding in a Mill.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house in specific situation > house by toll-bridge or -gate
toll-cotec1460
toll-house1763
toll-lodge1818
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > toll-barrier > keeper of > house of
toll-cotec1460
toll-house1763
toll-lodge1818
c1460 Play Sacram. 540 Inquyre to þe Tolkote, for ther ys hys loggyng.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > collector of duty on goods
tollerc1000
tolnerc1050
toll-gatherer1382
customer1389
toll-reeve1433
pennytollerc1450
toll-taker1555
toll-farmer1556
publicana1563
custom officer1644
exciseman1647
toll-mastera1649
custom house officer1654
toll-customera1681
customs officer1705
hoppo1711
ride officer1799
toll-collector1822
excisor1835
customs agent1838
custom-houser1865
a1681 G. Wharton Fasts & Festivals in Wks. (1683) 28 Saint Matthew, who being..a Publican or Toll-customer by Profession, became a Disciple, an Apostle, an Evangelist, and Martyr.
toll-farmer n. one who farms the tolls at a certain place; = farmer n.2 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > collector of duty on goods
tollerc1000
tolnerc1050
toll-gatherer1382
customer1389
toll-reeve1433
pennytollerc1450
toll-taker1555
toll-farmer1556
publicana1563
custom officer1644
exciseman1647
toll-mastera1649
custom house officer1654
toll-customera1681
customs officer1705
hoppo1711
ride officer1799
toll-collector1822
excisor1835
customs agent1838
custom-houser1865
1556 N. Grimald tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Duties i. f. 59 The gaine of tollfarmers, and usurers.
1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian Lucian of Samosata I. 469 Murderers, adulterers, toll-farmers,..and others of the same pack.
ΚΠ
1222 in J. Thorpe Registrum Roffense (1769) 369 xvj tolfata faciunt unum quarterium salis.]
1547 in J. H. Glover Kingsthorpiana (1883) 93 That all thos p[er]sones that have quernes shall suffer noe body to grynde theirat above a Tolfatt, uppon payn for every Tolfatt more then their owne..iiid.
toll-gate n. a gate across a road at which toll was payable, a turnpike-gate.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > toll-barrier
bar1540
turnpike1678
sidebar1760
toll-gate1773
barrier1804
toll-bar1813
pike1820
octroi1861
pay wicket1895
péage1973
the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > gate > toll gate
turnpike1678
toll-gate1773
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road > turnpike or toll-road > barrier on
turnpike1678
toll-gate1773
toll-bar1813
péage1973
1773 Gentleman's Mag. 43 441/1 They..shall pass upon any turnpike road, through any toll-gate or bar, for half-toll.
1775 S. Johnson Journey W. Islands 5 It affords a southern stranger a new kind of pleasure to travel so commodiously without the interruption of toll-gates.
1884 D. Pae Eustace 95 The toll-gate was closed, but he vaulted over it.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun] > town hall
toll-hall1395
tollbooth1440
town hallc1453
town's hall?1609
Rathaus1611
booth-halla1711
palace1808
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > local government offices > town-hall
guild-hall?a1000
tolsel1373
toll-hall1395
tollbooth1440
common house1450
town hallc1453
townhouse?1518
state housea1587
City Hall1603
1395 in J. C. Atkinson Cartularium Abbathiæ de Whiteby (1881) II. 555 De tolale de Hakeness v s.
1416–17 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 285 viij s. x d. de profect. curiæ et tolhale villæ de Hett.
1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 11v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The Skinner rew retching from the Pyllorie, to the Tolehall, or to the high Crosse.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring volume > measuring vessels > vessel of standard capacity > bowl for measuring grain or corn
toll-hoopc1270
corn-dish1419
reasonc1450
multure dish?c1475
toll-dishc1580
dish1774
c1270 Customs Great Farringdon (MS. Barlow 49, lf. 22 b) De consuetudine mercati..pro carectata salis dabitur vnus discus salis, qui continere debet unum tolhop, uel vnus denarius.
1701 W. Kennett Cowell's Interpreter (new ed.) sig. Iii2v Tolhop, A Toll-dish, or small Measure by which they take Toll for Corn sold in an overt Market.
toll-keeper n. the keeper of a toll-gate or toll-house.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > toll-barrier > keeper of
tollman1743
toll-keeper1822
1822 Act 3 Geo. IV c. 126 §22 (margin) Toll keepers permitting Waggons, &c. of greater Weight than allowed, to pass without Toll. Penalty 5 l.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge iii. 249 He..had cried a lusty ‘good-night’, to the toll-keeper.
toll levying n.
ΚΠ
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iii. i. 196 [They] continued their feuds, toll-levyings, plunderings and other contumacies.
toll-lodge n. = toll-house n. 2.
ΘΚΠ
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house in specific situation > house by toll-bridge or -gate
toll-cotec1460
toll-house1763
toll-lodge1818
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > toll-barrier > keeper of > house of
toll-cotec1460
toll-house1763
toll-lodge1818
1818–19 Leigh's New Picture London 313 The four toll-lodges are neat doric structures.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > collector of duty on goods
tollerc1000
tolnerc1050
toll-gatherer1382
customer1389
toll-reeve1433
pennytollerc1450
toll-taker1555
toll-farmer1556
publicana1563
custom officer1644
exciseman1647
toll-mastera1649
custom house officer1654
toll-customera1681
customs officer1705
hoppo1711
ride officer1799
toll-collector1822
excisor1835
customs agent1838
custom-houser1865
a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James IV in Wks. (1711) 70 These Projectors and new Toll-Masters, the King giving Way to enrich his Exchequer, awakened them [old laws].
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > area within which local toll is payable
toll mere1500
1500 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 450 Every shipp sayling with merchandise within the toll meres.
toll-office n. an office where toll is taken.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > customs house or tollbooth
tollbooth13..
custom housea1400
toll-housec1440
dogana1605
douane1656
scale1682
excise-office1698
sayer choky1751
toll-shop1789
toll-office1841
chop-house1882
naka1984
1841 E. B. Pusey tr. St. Thomas Aquinas Comm. Matt. I. 94 He found a man sitting at the toll-office.
toll penny n. a penny paid or charged as toll.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > [noun] > specific amount
toll penny1520
1520 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 24 No person shall pay toll for his Catell..but only a toll peny..if any catell be sold.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > measuring instrument > [noun] > for measuring volume > measuring vessels > piece of wood for levelling off a measure
strickle14..
toll-pina1626
a1626 J. Fletcher & W. Rowley Maid in Mill iii. iii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Bbbb2/2 The Miller has a stout heart, Tough as his Toal-pin.
toll plaza n. U.S. a row of toll booths on a toll road.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > customs house or tollbooth > row of
toll plaza1948
1948 Sun (Baltimore) 20 Nov. 14/2 All tolls for travel across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge will be paid at booths on the 1,000-foot toll plaza on the Western Shore approach to the bridge.
1983 N.Y. Times 16 July 26/6 Connecticut state police have been stopping northbound trucks at the Greenwich toll plaza on the Connecticut Turnpike.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > collector of duty on goods
tollerc1000
tolnerc1050
toll-gatherer1382
customer1389
toll-reeve1433
pennytollerc1450
toll-taker1555
toll-farmer1556
publicana1563
custom officer1644
exciseman1647
toll-mastera1649
custom house officer1654
toll-customera1681
customs officer1705
hoppo1711
ride officer1799
toll-collector1822
excisor1835
customs agent1838
custom-houser1865
1433 Rolls of Parl. IV. 477/2 Tollereves, to resceyve the Toll and..Custumes.
1444 Rolls of Parl. V. 124/1 Tolreves to resceyve and gedre the tolle, and such custumes as longeth to hem to take at the Yates of the seid Toun.
toll-road n. a road maintained by tolls, a turnpike road (now chiefly U.S.).
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road > turnpike or toll-road
turnpike road1745
turnpike1748
trust road1787
pike1812
toll-road1825
pike road1838
tollway1955
péage1973
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Toll-road, a turnpike road.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters ii. ii. 70 A dry water-course, entered the Toll road.
toll-room n. a room or apartment where tolls are collected, as at a turnpike.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > customs house or tollbooth > room or building
search housec1530
long room1642
toll-room1749
1749 in C. J. Fèret Fulham (1900) I. 63 Paid for Whitewashing the offices and Toll Room 5s.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > customs house or tollbooth
tollbooth13..
custom housea1400
toll-housec1440
dogana1605
douane1656
scale1682
excise-office1698
sayer choky1751
toll-shop1789
toll-office1841
chop-house1882
naka1984
1789 J. Brand Hist. & Antiq. Newcastle I. 53 No houses, except toll shops, were to be erected on the new bridge.
ΚΠ
1316–17 Chester Plea Roll 9 & 10 Edw. II. m. 35 None partis cuiusdam proficui prouenientis del Tolstok.
toll television n. (also toll TV) = pay television n. at pay v.1 Compounds 1c, pay TV n.
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society > communication > broadcasting > television > [noun] > types of television system
radiovision1924
colour television1927
phonovision1927
Scophony1932
stratovision1945
subscription television1945
Phonevision1947
pay television1950
subscription TV1950
telemeter1951
Web TV1952
pay TV1954
toll television1956
digital television1957
slot television1958
digital TV1959
satellite television1961
satellite TV1961
cable television1965
satellite1982
1956 Britannica Bk. of Year 492/2 Pay T.V., Toll T.V.,..these phrases having been coined in America during a discussion of the possibilities of providing additional television programmes to viewers willing to pay for them on a subscription basis.
1960 News Chron. 13 Oct. 14/2 The pioneer Toll-TV service working in a suburb of Toronto.
1960 Spectator 30 Dec. 1039 The principle of toll television is that the viewer should pay only for films..he wants to see.
tollway n. U.S. a highway for the use of which a charge is made.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road > turnpike or toll-road
turnpike road1745
turnpike1748
trust road1787
pike1812
toll-road1825
pike road1838
tollway1955
péage1973
1955 Britannica Bk. of Year 490/1 Modern automobile transport continued to produce new words. Among these were Tollway, a modern version of the old toll road.
1958 Times 22 Nov. 7/6 To the other points of the compass the expressways—and even newer, faster, tollways—throw out rippling tentacles.
1969 ‘E. Lathen’ When in Greece vi. 61 The new tollway along the coast..was..the only high speed road in Greece.
1982 S. Paretsky Indemnity Only xvi. 214 I headed back to the tollway and Chicago.
toll-table n. a table of the toll-dues at a turnpike.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > toll-barrier > table of toll-dues at
toll-table1806
1806 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 405/1 The toll-table, against the turn~pike house, at Whalley, in Yorkshire.
toll-taker n. one who takes tolls; a toll-collector, toll-gatherer.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > collector of duty on goods
tollerc1000
tolnerc1050
toll-gatherer1382
customer1389
toll-reeve1433
pennytollerc1450
toll-taker1555
toll-farmer1556
publicana1563
custom officer1644
exciseman1647
toll-mastera1649
custom house officer1654
toll-customera1681
customs officer1705
hoppo1711
ride officer1799
toll-collector1822
excisor1835
customs agent1838
custom-houser1865
1555 Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary c. 7 §4 The open Place appointed for the Toll-Taker.
1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Luke iii. 12) These [publicans] were toll-takers, custom-gatherers for the Romans.
1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel I. iv. 30 A quaint little church..adjoining the toll-taker's shed.
toll-taking n. and adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun]
tollinga1350
customing1433
tollagea1513
toll-gathering1577
toll-taking1611
excise1710
tariffication1892
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Peagerie, Toll-taking.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tolln.2
/təʊl/, U.S. /toʊl/ a. The act of tolling a bell, or the sound made by a bell when tolled; (with plural) a single stroke made in tolling or ringing a bell, or the sound made by such stroke.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [noun]
bell-ringOE
ringingc1300
bell-ringingc1350
knoll1379
toll1452
tollinga1513
jowing1516
round ringinga1661
tintinnabulism1826
clocking1863
clappering1874
tintinnabulation1883
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [noun] > sound of bell > large bell
knoll1379
toll1452
knolling1480
tollinga1513
tonging1584
thief and reever bell1777
bell-toll1860
donga1882
tong1881
1452 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 276 The comone bell shuld toll iii. tollis iiii. tymes to warne the comones to harr semble.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (1663) lxi. 250 At the sound of a bell which gave three toles, the Bonzes prostrated themselves all with their faces to the ground.
1775 S. J. Pratt Liberal Opinions (1783) III. civ. 253 The sermon-bell was upon the toll when I had not so much as penned a slip of paper.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. iv. 106 I should lose my good name for ever within the toll of Paul's, were I to grant quittance.
1871 Rossetti John of Tours v As it neared the midnight toll, John of Tours gave up his soul.
1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 537/2 At the news of Nelson's triumph and death at Trafalgar, the bells of Chester rang a merry peal alternated with one deep toll.
b. A sound resembling the tolling of a bell, as the note of the South American bell-bird or campanero.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > [noun] > family Cotingidae (cotinga) > genus Procnias (bell-bird)
bell-bird1802
araponga1824
campanero1825
toll1825
1825 C. Waterton Wanderings in S. Amer. ii. 118 No sound or song from any of the winged inhabitants of the forest..cause such astonishment, as the toll of the Campanero... You hear his toll, and then a pause for a minute, then another toll, and then a pause again, and then a toll, and again a pause.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† tolln.3
Falconry. Obsolete.
? A lure. (Cf. quot. 1659 at toll v.1 1.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > falconry or hawking equipment > [noun] > lure, etc.
lurec1440
watchc1450
toll1486
train1496
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Hawking d j An hawke flieth to the vew, to the Beke, or to the Toll.
1486 Bk. St. Albans, Hawking d j b A Goshawke or a tercell that shall flee to the vew, to the toll or to the beke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
tolln.4
Now dialect. (Kent to Hampshire).
A clump of trees.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > clump or cluster
hata1425
tuftc1450
plumpa1470
clumpa1586
turb1618
hummock1636
toll1644
bush1856
1644 G. Plattes in S. Hartlib Legacy (1655) 245 Feeding of Cattel in racks under a tolle of trees.
1892 A. J. Butler tr. Marbot Mem. I. ii. 13 My father stopped his carriage by the famous toll [Fr. devant l'arbre remarquable] under which the Constable Montmorency was made prisoner by the troops of Louis XIII.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
tolltolev.1
/təʊl/, U.S. /toʊl/ Now dialect and U.S.
1. transitive. To attract, entice, allure, decoy; †to incite, instigate (obsolete).In literary use in England down to 1690; in 18–19th centuries in midlands and southern dialects (see Eng. Dial. Dict.), and U.S. literary use.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > motivation > attraction, allurement, or enticement > attract, allure, or entice [verb (transitive)]
teec888
tightc1000
drawc1175
tollc1220
till?c1225
ticec1275
bringc1300
entice1303
win1303
wina1340
tempt1340
misdrawa1382
wooa1387
lure1393
trainc1425
allurea1450
attract?a1475
lock1481
enlure1486
attice1490
allect1518
illect?1529
wind1538
disarm1553
call1564
troll1565
embait1567
alliciate1568
slock1594
enamour1600
court1602
inescate1602
fool1620
illure1638
magnetize1658
trepana1661
solicit1665
whistle1665
drill1669
inveigh1670
siren1690
allicit1724
wisea1810
come-hither1954
the mind > will > motivation > motivate [verb (transitive)] > incite or instigate
stirc897
putOE
sputc1175
prokec1225
prickc1230
commovec1374
baitc1378
stingc1386
movea1398
eager?a1400
pokec1400
provokea1425
tollc1440
cheera1450
irritec1450
encourage1483
incite1483
harden1487
attice1490
pricklea1522
to set on1523
incense1531
irritate1531
animate1532
tickle1532
stomach1541
instigate1542
concitea1555
upsteer1558
urge1565
instimulate1570
whip1573
goad1579
raise1581
to set upa1586
to call ona1592
incitate1597
indarec1599
alarm1602
exstimulate1603
to put on1604
feeze1610
impulse1611
fomentate1613
emovec1614
animalize1617
stimulate1619
spura1644
trinkle1685
cite1718
to put up1812
prod1832
to jack up1914
goose1934
c1220 Bestiary 545 in Old Eng. Misc. 17 Ðis deuel..Tolleð men to him wið his onde.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1627 An swa mai mon tolli him to Lutle briddes & iuo.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 214 And we wol payen trewely atte fulle With empty hand men may none haukes tulle [Camb. MS. folle..tolle] Lo heere our siluer redy for to spende.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 496/1 Tollyn, or mevyn, or steryn to doon..a dede, incito, provoco, excito.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark iv. f. 33 Which allure and tolle men vnto them.
1570 T. Wilson in tr. Demosthenes 3 Orations Ep. Ded. sig. *v If by this meanes I could towle out some other to do this perfitely.
1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 18 To tole in customers.
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne v. 226 She..with sweet sighes them on doth toule.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. ix. xli. 261 She..by little and little tilleth and tolleth them so neere, that she can easily seaze vpon them.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Emmiellé..inticed, inueagled, allured, tolled, or drawne on by sweet meanes.
1659 J. Milton Considerations touching Hirelings 132 By that lure or loubel [he] may be toald from parish to parish all the town over.
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §115 Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at..be sure to tole him on to by..Degrees.
1801 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) III. 467 To toll us back to the times when we burnt witches.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Toll-on, to entice, to draw on by degrees.
1879 J. D. Long tr. Virgil Æneid i. 785 Now Dido, she Of Tyre, is toling him with tender words.
1879 T. Hardy Distracted Preacher in New Q. Mag. Apr. 357 'Tis all done to tole us the wrong way.
1885 W. D. Howells Rise Silas Lapham xi. 216 I'm not going to have 'em say we..tolled him on.
2.
a. spec. U.S. To lure or decoy (wild animals) for the purpose of capture; esp. (a) to decoy (ducks) by means of a dog trained for the purpose (see toller n.2 2); (b) to attract (fish) by means of bait thrown into the water (see toll-bait n., also quot. 18.. at tolling n.1 b). Also absol. or intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > hunting > hunt [verb (transitive)] > allure into snare
decoy1672
toll1851
1851 E. J. Lewis Hints to Sportsmen xxi. 182 In this simple branch of education, within the comprehension of any dog, consists the almost incredible art of toling the canvass-back.
1885 C. F. Holder Marvels Animal Life 131 I..procured a large rabbit and placed it some way up from the pond, to toll her [a snake] away from the water.
1885 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 108/1 Captain Kennedy's Indian attendant had toled: but neither stag paid any attention.
1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 691/2 He [a fox] is ‘tolled’..by a noise made like two fighting crows.
b. intransitive for passive. To admit of tolling.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [verb (intransitive)] > act in particular way
fawna1250
stoop?1530
kennel1552
fetch-and-carrya1616
to cock one's ears1714
beg1816
toll1851
trust1939
1851 E. J. Lewis Hints to Sportsmen xxi. 183 The canvass-back toles better than any other duck.
1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting xxv. 251 The black-heads tole the most readily.
3. † b. toll out: (?) To stretch out to (a stated length) by being pulled. Obsolete. rare.
a. transitive. To pull, drag, draw (physically). ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impelling or driving > pushing and pulling > push and pull [verb (transitive)] > pull
teea900
drawOE
tighta1000
towc1000
tirea1300
pullc1300
tugc1320
halea1393
tilla1400
tolla1400
pluckc1400
retract?a1475
hook1577
tew1600
hike1867
a1400–50 Alexander 3640 Þan preses in þe Persyns & of þe proud Medis..agayn all þe yndis, Tolls of þe tirantis.., Seȝes doun on aithire side a sowme out of nounbre.
c1440 York Myst. xlvi. 58 As a traytour atteynted þei toled hym and tugged hym [Jesus].
1542 N. Vyllagon Lamentable & Piteous Treat. in Harleian Misc. (1808) I. 243 Thynkynge that..he woulde with strength of men, tolle forth his shippes..into the depth of the see.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. vi. 20 Mr. Nicholas..toles downe the books with as little remorse, as a Carman does billets.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > extend longitudinally [verb (intransitive)] > become longer > be drawn out
toll out1377
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. v. 214 And put hem in a presse and pyn[n]ed hem þerinne, Tyl ten ȝerdes or twelue hadde tolled out threttene.
c. intransitive for passive. To pull (itself), move, drift.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > move along [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of things
travelc1300
passa1387
gad1582
toll18..
translate1876
18.. W. Scott in Goode Amer. Fishes (1888) 89 The boat toles round from the tide toward the feeding-ground.
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tollv.2
/təʊl/, U.S. /toʊl/ 1. † b. absol. or intransitive. To ring. Obsolete.
a. transitive. To cause (a great bell) to sound by pulling the rope, esp. in order to give an alarm or signal; to ring (a great bell). archaic or rhetorical.(Since to toll is said of the bell itself (sense 3) in 1452, the transitive sense must have been in use before that date.)
ΘΚΠ
society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > ringing of bells as signal > ring (a bell) as signal [verb (transitive)]
tolla1513
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [verb (transitive)]
knellc961
ring?a1300
clipc1440
to ring outc1453
knoll1467
tolla1513
ting1552
jowa1572
tinglea1657
taratantar1840
clock1858
clapper1872
jowl1872
chime1880
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. xxxv Sir Hughe le Spenser came..& desyred assystence of the fore named Constables, The which commaunded the said Belle to be tolled.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 284 Syr John went into the market place, and there tolled the common Bell, and then incontinent men and women assembled.
1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 48 He accusid me of..præsumption for that I tooke uppon me to bid the butler toul the bel.
1631 Foxe's Actes & Monuments (ed. 7) III. Contin. 59/1 Let the bell of the Church of S. Germain be touled.
1703 London Gaz. No. 3749/4 The Bells were tolled at Caneto, and the Allarm was given on all sides by firing of Guns.
1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. viii. 160 You run to the porter and tell him to toll the great bell with all his might.
a1873 E. O. M. Deutsch Lit. Remains (1874) 255 The bells were tolled in an irregular and funereal fashion.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [verb (intransitive)]
ringc1400
tolla1513
a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) ii. xix. sig. r.ii The same glad tidyng shewed an honest woman Tollyng at the churche dore the sayd day and hour.
2.
a. spec. To cause (a large or deep-toned bell) to give forth a sound repeated at regular intervals by pulling the rope so that the bell swings through a short arc (in contrast to ringing it in full swing), or by striking it with a hammer or the like, or pulling the clapper; esp. for summoning a congregation to church.
Π
1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Pref. sig. a.iii The Curate..shal tolle a belle thereto [i.e. to Morning and Evening Prayer], a conuenient tyme before he beginne, that suche as be disposed maye come..to praye with him.
1600 Weakest goeth to Wall sig. G3 Heere take the key and toll to Euening prayer.
a1604 M. Hanmer Chron. Ireland 103 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) [They] wayted for divine Service, they rung the Bell, they tould, they waited long.
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas To toll a Bell, which is to make him strike onely of one side.
a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. iii. 480 Some one [bell] (as that of Lincolne Minster) requiring the helpe of many men to toule it, and some dossen or twenty men to ringe it out.
1844 E. B. Barrett Duchess May in Poems II. 63 To the belfry, one by one, went the ringers from the sun,—Toll slowly .
1860 E. B. Denison Clocks & Watches & Bells 424 A large bell may be tolled easily by one man, if it is properly hung... I should hang a very large bell for tolling only, on wedge shaped gudgeons, so as to move with very little friction, and put a stop to prevent it from being pulled too far.
b. (now) on the occasion of a death (the passing-bell) or funeral. Also absol. or intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > obsequies > [verb (transitive)] > toll bell
toll1526
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [verb (intransitive)] > slowly on occasion of death or funeral
toll1526
the world > life > death > obsequies > [verb (intransitive)] > sound knell
knella1375
toll1782
1526 [implied in: 1526 in H. T. Ellacombe Church Bells Devon (1872) 463 The clerke to have for tollynge of the passynge belle,..if it be in the day, 0s. 4d. (at tolling n.2 a)].
c1604 Charlemagne (1938) v. 82 If I but chaunce to toule his passinge bell & giue ye parryshe notyce who is dead.
1635 T. Cranley Amanda 88 My tongue doth faile, goe toule the passing bell.
1782 W. Cowper Loss Royal George i Toll for the brave! The brave that are no more!
1790 W. Cowper On Receipt Mother's Picture 28 I heard the bell toll'd on thy burial day, I saw the hearse, that bore thee slow away.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Death of Old Year in Poems (new ed.) 154 Toll ye the churchbell sad and slow..For the old year lies a-dying.
1901 H. E. Bulwer Gloss. Techn. Terms Bells & Ringing 37 Tolling, causing a bell—generally the ‘Tenor’, or one of the heavier bells—to sound a number of times in slow succession, sometimes with marked intervals between every two or three ‘blows’, to announce a death or funeral.
1905 Harmsworth Encycl. 660/1 The passing bell was tolled when any one was passing out of life. This custom still survives in many parts of Britain, but the bell is now tolled after the death.
3. Said of a bell (also of the ringer): To sound (esp. a knell, etc.) by ringing as in sense 2; also of a clock, to strike (the hour) in a deep tone with slow measured strokes. Cf. knoll v.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > sound (notes, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > bell
toll1452
chime1793
swing1817
knoll1842
stroke1901
1452 Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) 276 The comone bell shuld toll iii. tollis iiii. tymes.
1653 T. Barker Art of Angling 1 This man may come home..and cause the Clerk to tole his knell.
1683 J. Dryden & N. Lee Duke of Guise iv. ii. 43 Some crowd the Spires, but most the hallow'd Bells, And softly Toll for Souls departing Knells, Each Chime thou hear'st, a future death foretells.
1751 T. Gray Elegy i. 5 The Curfeu tolls the knell of parting day.
1771 J. Beattie Minstrel: Bk. 1st xli. 21 Slow tolls the village-clock the drowsy hour.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. xxxi. 192 And bells tolled out their mighty peal, For the departed spirit's weal.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor ix, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 223 She died just as the clock in the distant village tolled one.
1861 E. D. Cook Paul Foster's Daughter i The clock of St. Paul's Covent Garden has just tolled out the hour of two.
4.
a. intransitive. Of a bell: To give forth sounds of this character by being tolled; also quasi-impersonal (quot. c1729). Also said of a clock striking the hour on a deep-toned bell; in quot. 1826 of the hour.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > sound [verb (intransitive)] > bells
ringc1175
knella1375
clinkc1386
clapc1440
jangle1494
toll1551
knoll1582
chime1583
troll1607
tintinnate1623
swing1645
ding-dong1659
strike1677
jow1786
clam?a1800
to ring in1818
dinglea1839
to strike offa1843
dingle dongle1858
jowl1872
tankle1894
tintinnabulate1906
tong1907
1551 J. Hooper Injunct. xxiii, in Later Writings (1852) (modernized text) 137 In case..any of their friends, will demand to have the bell toll whiles the sick is in extremes.
1592 T. Kyd Spanish Trag. iii. sig. H4 The Windes blowing, the Belles towling, the Owle shriking,..and the Clocke striking twelue.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. 0. 15 The Countrey Cocks doe crow, the Clocks doe towle . View more context for this quotation
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxi. 257 Then the same bell having tolled three times more, the two Priests descended.
1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 189 If I heard the Bell Toull for some that were dead. View more context for this quotation
c1729 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1910) 8 88 After compline the same day it toled to Chapter.
1745 R. L. Gower in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) I. 76 The bells toll for prayers.
1816 J. Wilson City of Plague ii. ii. 289 By day and night the death-bell tolls, And says, ‘Prepare to die’.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. ix. 240 Midnight at length tolled.
1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. I. 231 The great bell of St. Peter's tolled with a deep boom.
b. intransitive. transferred and figurative. To make a sound like the tolling of a bell; to give forth a deep-toned or monotonously repeated note; spec. (Scottish) said of bees before swarming (see tolling n.2 b).
ΚΠ
1747 [implied in: R. Maxwell Pract. Bee-master 46 This Sound, commonly called Towling, proceeds, I suppose, from the young King, giving Signal to his Company to make ready for a March. (at tolling n.2 b)].
1848 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 191 A thought comes tolling o'er the darkened soul Which we dare hardly guest.
a1849 J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 122 Sullen tolls the far-off river's flow.
1857 G. Borrow Romany Rye I. ix. 110 Oh, that's the cuckoo tolling.
1912 M. Hewlett in Eng. Rev. Apr. 5 Then in clear sky the thunder tolled Sudden.
5. transitive. To announce (a death, etc.) by tolling; to toll for (a dying or dead person).
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > obsequies > [verb (transitive)] > toll bell > toll bell for
toll1600
knolla1616
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > bell-ringing > [verb (transitive)] > ring bell for
chime1588
toll1600
knolla1616
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. i. 103 His tongue Sounds euer after as a sullen bell, Remembred tolling [1623 knolling] a departing friend. View more context for this quotation
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iv. sig. G2v Groning like a bell, That towles departing soules.
1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lvi. 82 One set slow bell will seem to toll The passing of the sweetest soul That ever looked with human eyes. View more context for this quotation
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xii. 333 My room-mate thought..it was the bell tolling deaths, and people's ages, as they do in the country.
6.
a. To summon or dismiss by tolling. Const. in, out, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > worship > church-going > attend (church) [verb (transitive)] > summon or dismiss by a bell
ring1483
toll1611
society > faith > worship > church-going > attend (church) [verb (transitive)] > summon or dismiss by a bell > of bell: summon
ring1485
toll1611
society > communication > indication > signalling > audible signalling > ringing of bells as signal > ring (a bell) as signal [verb (transitive)] > summon or dismiss by
ring1483
toll1611
knolla1616
knell1816
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxii. 805/2 To ring the Masse into England, and to towll Cardinall Poole from Rome.
1683 J. Dryden Vindication 17 For Conscience or Heavens fear, religious Rules Are all State-bells to toll in pious Fools.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 130 When hollow Murmurs of their Ev'ning Bells, Dismiss the sleepy Swains, and toll 'em to their Cells. View more context for this quotation
1820 J. Keats Ode to Nightingale in Lamia & Other Poems 112 Forlorn! the very word is like a bell To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
1841 W. M. Thackeray Great Hoggarty Diamond iv As she spoke, the bells were just tolling the people out of church.
b. absol. or intransitive. toll in: to summon a congregation to church by tolling (said of a person, or of the bell); esp. in reference to the change from ordinary ringing or chiming a few minutes before the commencement of worship.
Π
1710 J. B. Let. to Sacheverell 13 The Bells were Tolling in.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 372. ⁋1 I was tolling in to Prayers at Eleven in the Morning.
1860 J. W. Warter Sea-board & Down II. 455 I had no time to lose, as the bell was tolling in.
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tollv.3
/təʊl/, U.S. /toʊl/ Now rare.† 3.
1. intransitive. To take or collect toll; to exact or levy toll.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > exact impost, due, or tax [verb (intransitive)]
tolla1350
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > impose or set duties [verb (intransitive)]
tolla1350
tariff1756
a1350 [implied in: St. Matthew 416 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 136 Saint Mathew..A toller was..With tolling mikell gude he gat. (at tolling n.3)].
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 564 Wel koude he stelen corn, and tollen thryes And yet he hadde a thombe of gold perdee.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 496/1 Tollyn, or make tolle.., multo.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 759/1 I tolle, I take the tolle, as a baylyfe dothe in a fayre or market... I tolle, as a myller doth, je prens le tollyu.
1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas sig. H.iijv When millers, toll not with a golden thumbe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 80 No Italian Priest Shall tythe or toll in our dominions. View more context for this quotation
a1658 J. Cleveland Sing-song xxx He toll'd for the rest of the Grist.
1886 J. Craig Tollman's Lament in R. Ford Harp Perthshire (1893) 346 Whan first my tollin' days began.
2.
a. transitive. To take toll of (something); to exact a part of by way of toll.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > exact duty on [verb (transitive)]
toll1399
custom1474
tonnage1644
excise1652
tariff1828
1399 W. Langland Richard Redeles iii. 81 And tymed no twynte, but tolled her cornes, And gaderid þe grotus with gyle, as I trowe.
1546 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 179 The untrewe and excessyve tollinge of certayne quarters of wheate meale.
1591 Troublesome Raigne Iohn i. sig. G Till I had tythde and tolde their holy hoords.
1686 W. Hedges Diary 14 June (1887) I. 230 Here we were mett by ye Customer of Diarbekeer, who tolled our loads, and tooke ye custom & dutys of all the 3 places.
1794 M. Wollstonecraft Hist. & Moral View of Origin & Progress French Revol. 76 The poor husbandman,..afterwards forced to carry the scanty crop to be tolled at the mill of monseigneur.
1894 Westm. Gaz. 26 May 5/2 The company-promoting system, whereby the City sharper tolls the savings of the credulous investor.
b. To charge (a person, etc.) with a toll, impose a toll upon, exact a toll from.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > [verb (transitive)] > levy (an impost, tax, or due) > impose exactions on
toll1583
to lay under contribution1644
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > toll for passing through > charge for passage of [verb (transitive)] > charge person for passage
toll1897
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Ddij v Aegeon..doeth scoure the Seas, and toules the trafficke of trading merchauntes.
1592 tr. F. Du Jon Apocalypsis xiii. 1 What time the Empire of Rome..was mightily tolled, hauing euer and an one new heads.
1897 Daily News 2 Nov. 6/3 You have only to cross the bridge and you are sure to be tolled.
1912 M. Hewlett in Eng. Rev. Apr. 10 All [must] be tolled By Charon in his dark-prowed boat.
c. To take or gather (something) as toll.
ΚΠ
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 204 Like the bee toling from euery flower [Folios culling from euery flower] . View more context for this quotation
1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 189 Writers, like bees, toll their sweets in the wide world.
d. To charge a toll for the use of (a bridge, crossing, etc.). Chiefly as ppl. adj.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > toll for passing through > charge for passage of [verb (transitive)]
toll1978
1978 Financial Times 24 Oct. 11/3 The tolled Humber bridge.
1978 in H. Wilson Final Term (1979) 247 Concessions to ‘Orange Badge’ holders at most tolled crossings.
a. intransitive. To pay toll; to toll for (spec.), to enter (a horse, etc.) for sale in the toll-book of a market.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > impose or set duties [verb (intransitive)] > pay duty
toll1393
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xiv. 51 For þe lawe askeþ Marchauns for here merchaundise in meny place to tollen.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 759/1 I tolle..as they that come to the myll, je paye le tollyu. You shal tolle, or you go, or I wyll tolle for you.
1537 A. Borde Let. 13 Aug. in Fyrst Bk. Introd. Knowl. (1870) Foreword 62 They þat bowght þem dyd neuer toll for them.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) v. iii. 149 I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him.
1629 Vse of Law 80 in J. Doddridge Lawyers Light If hee bee a horse hee must bee ridden two houres in the Market or Faire, betweene Ten and fiue a clocke, and Tolled for in the Tolle-Booke.
1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. i. 50 Where, when, by whom, & what y'were sold for, And in the open Market toll'd for?
b. transitive (in same sense).
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > exact duty on [verb (transitive)] > pay duty (on)
custom1427
toll1697
1697 London Gaz. No. 3310/4 The Person who exposed him to Sale being required to Toll him withdrew himself, by which it was conjectured he was stole.
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tollv.4
/təʊl/, U.S. /toʊl/ Law.
transitive. To take away, bar, defeat, annul. to toll an entry, to take away the right of, or bar entry.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > rule of law > illegality > render illegal [verb (transitive)] > deprive of legal validity
abatea1325
squatcha1325
voida1325
allayc1325
annul1395
reverse1395
revokec1400
rupt?a1425
repealc1425
abroge1427
defeat1429
purloin1461
cassa1464
toll1467
resume1472
reprove1479
suspend1488
discharge1495
reduce1498
cassate1512
defease1512
denulla1513
disannula1513
fordoa1513
avoid1514–5
abrogate?1520
frustrate1528
revert1528
disaffirm?1530
extinct1530
resolve1537
null1538
nihilate1545
extinguish1548
elidec1554
revocate1564
annullate1570
squat1577
skaila1583
irritate1605
retex1606
nullify1607
unable1611
refix1621
vitiate1627
invalid1643
vacate1643
unlaw1644
outlaw1647
invalidate1649
disenact1651
vacuate1654
supersedec1674
destroy1805
break1891
1292 Britton i. vi. §2 Ensint qe peyne ne lour toulle nule resoun.
1292 Britton i. xxvi. §1 Cum il avera tolet ai pieyntif. Et si..ele avera tolu a homme ses membres.]
1467–8 Rolls of Parl. V. 631/1 That the esson and..other delay of eny persone..by this acte be not prejudiced nor tolled in any wise.
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 63 §4 Wherof their entres..shall be tolled and taken away by the Course of the Lawe.
1528–30 tr. T. Littleton Tenures (new ed.) f. xxxiiiiv Suche dyscente shal not toll the entre of the chylde but he maye entre vpon the yssue that is in by dyscent.
1642 J. March Argument Militia 18 The King may..dissolve a Parliament..and so totally toll their power.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 74 It..tolls the Presumption in Favour of a Sentence.
1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 375 In what cases this right of entry was taken away, or tolled, as it was expressed, by the death or alienation of the disseisor.
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