toll
    n 1: a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for
         maintenance)
    2: value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to
       obtain something; "the cost in human life was enormous"; "the
       price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?" [syn:
       price, cost, toll]
    3: the sound of a bell being struck; "saved by the bell"; "she
       heard the distant toll of church bells" [syn: bell, toll]
    v 1: ring slowly; "For whom the bell tolls"
    2: charge a fee for using; "Toll the bridges into New York City"

Tole \Tole\ (t[=o]l), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Toled; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Toling.] [OE. tollen to draw, to entice; of uncertain
   origin. Cf. Toll to ring a bell.]
   To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing
   or desirable; to allure by some bait. [Written also toll.]
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         Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at then he
         should, tole him on to by insensible degrees, till at
         last he masters the difficulty.
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Toll \Toll\, v. t. [L. tollere. See Tolerate.] (O. Eng. Law)
   To take away; to vacate; to annul.
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Toll \Toll\, v. t. [See Tole.]
   1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
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   2. [Probably the same word as toll to draw, and at first
      meaning, to ring in order to draw people to church.] To
      cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and
      uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell. "The
      sexton tolled the bell." --Hood.
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   3. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to
      ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. --Shak.
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            Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour.
                                                  --Beattie.
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   4. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
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            When hollow murmurs of their evening bells
            Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their
            cells.                                --Dryden.
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Toll \Toll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tolled; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Tolling.]
   To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated
   at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to
   announce the death of a person.
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         The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak.
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         Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope.
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Toll \Toll\, n.
   The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly
   repeated.
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Toll \Toll\, n. [OE. tol, AS. toll; akin to OS. & D. tol, G.
   zoll, OHG. zol, Icel. tollr, Sw. tull, Dan. told, and also to
   E. tale; -- originally, that which is counted out in payment.
   See Tale number.]
   1. A tax 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, or the like.
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   2. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law) A liberty to buy and sell within the
      bounds of a manor.
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   3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for
      grinding.
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   Toll and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a
      market, and jurisdiction of villeins. --Burrill.

   Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats
      at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers.

   Toll bridge, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over
      it.

   Toll corn, corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill.

   Toll dish, a dish for measuring toll in mills.

   Toll gatherer, a man who takes, or gathers, toll.

   Toll hop, a toll dish. [Obs.] --Crabb.

   Toll thorough (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts
      driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at
      its cost. --Brande & C.

   Toll traverse (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for
      beasts driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for
      passing over the private ground, bridge, ferry, or the
      like, of another.

   Toll turn (Eng. Law), a toll paid at the return of beasts
      from market, though they were not sold. --Burrill.
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   Syn: Tax; custom; duty; impost.
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Toll \Toll\, v. i.
   1. To pay toll or tallage. [R.] --Shak.
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   2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.]
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            Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll
            thrice.                               --Chaucer.
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            No Italian priest
            Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. --Shak.
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Toll \Toll\, v. t.
   To collect, as a toll. --Shak.
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Toll
   one of the branches of the king of Persia's revenues (Ezra 4:13;
   7:24), probably a tax levied from those who used the bridges and
   fords and highways.
   

TOLL, contracts. A sum of money for the use of something, generally applied 
to the consideration which is paid for the use of a road, bridge, or the 
like, of a public nature. Toll is also the compensation paid to a miller for 
grinding another person's grain. 
     2. The rate of taking toll for grinding is regulated by statute in most 
of the states. See 2 Hill. Ab. oh. 17; 6 Ad. & Ell. N. S. 31,; 6 Q. B. 3 1.