toll

Meanings

Noun

• Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
• A fee 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, etc.
• A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
• A tollbooth.
• A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
• A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
• The act or sound of tolling

Verb

• To impose a fee for the use of.
• To levy a toll on (someone or something).
• To take as a toll.
• To pay a toll or tallage.
• To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
• To summon by ringing a bell.
• To announce by tolling.
• To draw; pull; tug; drag.
• To tear in pieces.
• To draw; entice; invite; allure.
• To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).
• To take away; to vacate; to annul.
• To suspend.
• Past of tell

Related

Similar words

• bait, lure

Origin

• From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll ("toll, duty, custom"), from Proto-Germanic *tullō ("what is counted or told"), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- ("calculation, fraud"). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Tol ("toll"), Dutch tol ("toll"), German Zoll ("toll, duty, customs"), Danish told ("toll, duty, tariff"), Swedish tull ("toll, customs"), Icelandic tollur ("toll, customs"). More at tell, tale.
• Alternate etymology derives Old English toll, from Medieval Latin tolōneum, tolōnium, alteration (due to the Germanic forms above) of Latin telōneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον ("toll-house"), from τέλος.
• Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by toil
• From Middle English tolen, tollen, variation of tullen, tillen, from Old English *tyllan, *tillan (found in compounds fortyllan and betyllan, betillan), related to Old Frisian tilla ("to lift, raise"), Dutch tillen, Low German tillen ("to lift, remove"), Swedish dialectal tille.
• From Latin tollō ("to lift up").