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tolldish

tolldish noun: a vessel for measuring the toll of corn for grinding.

Noun

tolldish (plural tolldishes)

  1. A vessel for measuring the toll of corn for grinding.
    • So a mill; for one shall have it for so long a time, or one toll-dish, the other for a like time afterwards, or the second toll-dish.1793, John Comyns, A Digest of the Laws of England, volume 5
    • Derbyshire and other places prescribes to take lead of mines sterile, which is without gold or silver, without paying anything except coplot and tolldish, which privilege, 10th Elizabeth, was granted for ever to the Society of London for the Mineral and Battery Works, and they only, to employ...1853, John Calvert, The Gold Rocks of Great Britain and Ireland: And a General Outline of the Gold Regions of the World, with a Treatise on the Geology of Gold

Forms of tolldish

pluraltolldishes

Origin of tolldish

From toll + dish.

Questions about tolldish

What does tolldish mean?
Tolldish means a vessel for measuring the toll of corn for grinding.
What part of speech is tolldish?
Tolldish is a noun.
What is the plural of tolldish?
The plural of tolldish is tolldishes.

Words near tolldish in the dictionary

  1. tollbooth
  2. tollbooths
  3. tollbridge
  4. tollbridges
  5. Tollcross
  6. tolldish
  7. tolldishes
  8. Tolle
  9. tolled
  10. Tollefsen
  11. Tollefson

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