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单词 water toll
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water toll n. (a) (the right to collect) a toll or tax paid for the use of a waterway (now somewhat rare); (also) †a duty paid on the landing of goods transported by sea (obsolete); (b) a charge or levy paid for use of a water supply (in later use chiefly U.S.); cf. water rate n. [With sense (a) compare Middle Dutch watertolne (Dutch watertol), Middle Low German watertoln, Middle High German wazzerzol (German Wasserzoll).]
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1200 in T. D. Hardy Rotuli Chartarum in Turri Londinensi (1837) I. i. 55/2 Cum stramtol & watertol, & hamsocne.
1327 ( in H. C. Maxwell-Lyte Cal. Charter Rolls (1912) IV. 63 (MED) Moniales de Wrocheshala omnia sua tenementa habeant..cum stramtol et watertol et hamsochne.
1647 R. Grosse Royalty & Loyalty i. 21 Ripaticks, or water-toles..are commonly called Customes, for the importing and transporting of commodities, by Sea.
1739 F. Blomefield Hist. Thetford xiii. 70 At the death of Henry earl of Lancaster..the Market or Fair at Santon..[was] valued with the Water-Toll there, at 18s.
1828 Morning Chron. 20 May A water-toll of 1d. on every horse, mule or ass [using the turnpike], to be collected seven months in the years.
1830 Rep. Sel. Comm. House of Lords State of Coal Trade 95 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 9) VIII. 405 Local charges [at Scarborough]... On the sea-borne coals, water toll and pier duties 8½d. per imperial chaldron.
1879 Ipswich Jrnl. 22 Nov. 4/5 Some houses have wells of their own, but a very nice proportion..pays the five per cent. water-toll.
1955 N.Y. Times 30 Sept. 52/1 Water tolls opposed... Forty national organizations..oppose..collection of tolls on freight and large pleasure craft moving on the country's inland waterways.
2000 B. M. Haddad Rivers of Gold vi. 99 PVID collected water tolls of $43 per irrigated acre to cover the cost of maintaining the infrastructure.
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