tolleth

Verb (1)

toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)

1. (transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.
   • Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.
2. (ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
   • No Italian priest
     Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
3. (transitive) To take as a toll.
4. To pay a toll or tallage.
   • I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him.c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Verb (2)

toll (third-person singular simple present tolls, present participle tolling, simple past and past participle tolled)

1. (ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
   • Martin tolled the great bell every day.
2. (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.
   • The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.

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