toll
Forms
- Plural
- tolls
- present (v1)
- toll
- past (v2)
- tolled
- past participle (v3)
- tolled
- present participle
- tolling
- 3rd person singular
- tolls
Definitions
1.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.
- Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged.
2.Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
- The war has taken its toll on the people.
3.A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
- We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.
4.A fee paid by the owner of materials or other goods for processing such goods, as under a tolling agreement.
1.To impose a fee for the use of.
- Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.
2.To levy a toll on (someone or something).
3.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.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4994
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Synonyms
Etymology
From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-West Germanic *toll, *tolnu, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz, *tullō (“that which is counted or told, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“calculation, fraud”).