toll

• (UK) IPA^(key): /təʊl/, /tɒl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /toʊɫ/, /tɔl/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /toʊl/, /tɑl/
• Rhymes: -əʊl

From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English tol, toll, toln (“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-Germanic *tullō (“what is counted or told”), from Proto-Indo-European *dol- (“calculation, fraud”)[1]. 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”), Latin tollo (“raise, lift; destroy,”). 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 (telṓnion, “toll-house”), from τέλος (télos, “tax”).

toll (plural tolls)

1. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

   The war has taken its toll on the people.

2. 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.
3. (business) 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. (US) A tollbooth.

   We will be replacing some manned tolls with high-speed device readers.

5. (Britain, law, obsolete) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
6. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

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. (transitive, intransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).
   • Shakespeare

     No Italian priest / Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.

3. (transitive) To take as a toll.
4. To pay a toll or tallage.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)

Probably the same as Etymology 3. Possibly related to or influenced by toil

toll (plural tolls)

1. The act or sound of tolling

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.

   Ask not for whom the bell tolls.

   • 1922 February, James Joyce, “[[Episode 12: The Cyclops]]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare & Co.; Sylvia Beach, OCLC 560090630; republished London: Published for the Egoist Press, London by John Rodker, Paris, October 1922, OCLC 2297483:

     From the belfries far and near the funereal deathbell tolled unceasingly while all around the gloomy precincts rolled the ominous warning of a hundred muffled drums punctuated by the hollow booming of pieces of ordnance.

2. (transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.

   The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.

   • Dryden

     When hollow murmurs of their evening bells / Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells.

3. (transitive) To announce by tolling.

   The bells tolled the King’s death.

   • Beattie

     Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour.

• toller

From Middle English tolen, tollen, variation of tullen, tillen (“to draw, allure, entice”), from Old English *tyllan, *tillan (“to pull, draw, attract”) (found in compounds fortyllan (“to seduce, lead astray, draw away from the mark, deceive”) and betyllan, betillan (“to lure, decoy”)), related to Old Frisian tilla (“to lift, raise”), Dutch tillen (“to lift, raise, weigh, buy”), Low German tillen (“to lift, remove”), Swedish dialectal tille (“to take up, appropriate”).

• tole, toal

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

1. (transitive, obsolete) To draw; pull; tug; drag.
2. (transitive) To tear in pieces.
3. (transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.

   Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady"

4. (transitive) To lure with bait (especially, fish and animals).

• (to lure animals): bait, lure

From Latin tollō (“to lift up”).

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

1. (law, obsolete) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
2. (law) To suspend.

   The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct.

toll

1. (African American Vernacular) simple past tense and past participle of tell

   I done toll you for the last time.

toll m (plural tolls)

1. pool, puddle

From Old High German tol, from Proto-Germanic *dulaz (“dazed, foolish, crazy, stupid”), cognate with English dull. More at dull.

• IPA^(key): /tɔl/

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toll (comparative toller, superlative am tollsten)

1. great, nice, wonderful
2. (dated) crazy, mad

• supertoll
• Tollheit
• Tollwut

• doll

• cool
• geil

• toll in Duden online

From Proto-Uralic *tulka (“feather, wing”). Cognates include Mansi товыл (towəl, “wing, feather”).[1][2]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtolː]

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toll (plural tollak)

1. feather
2. pen

• tollas
• tollatlan
• tollú

toll

1. indefinite accusative singular of tollur

• IPA^(key): /t̪ˠoːl̪ˠ/, /t̪ˠɔl̪ˠ/

From Old Irish toll (“hole, hollow; buttocks, hindquarters”), from Proto-Celtic *tullon, *tullos (“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”).

toll m (genitive singular toill, nominative plural toill)

1. hole, hollow
2. posterior, buttocks

• tollán (“tunnel”)
• tollmhór (“big-bottomed; bumptious”)

From Old Irish toll (“pierced, perforated; hollow, empty”).

toll (genitive singular masculine toill, genitive singular feminine toille, plural tolla, comparative toille)

1. pierced, perforated
2. hollow, empty; (of voice) deep, hollow

From Old Irish tollaid (“pierces; penetrates”).

toll (present analytic tollann, future analytic tollfaidh, verbal noun tolladh, past participle tollta)

1. to bore, to pierce, to perforate

• tolladóir (“borer, piercer, perforator”)
• tollbhealach (“adit”)
• tollchárta (“punch-card”)
• tolltach (“piercing, penetrating”)

From Old English toll, from Proto-Germanic *tullō.

• tol, tolle, thol, toale, theol

• IPA^(key): /tɔl/, /tɔːl/

toll (plural tolles)

1. A toll, tax, or charge.
2. The privilege to levy fees or charges.
3. A waiver from any fees or charges.
4. (rare) taxation, payment.
5. (rare) A edge, point of difference

• tolboth
• tollen
• toller
• tolsey
• tollynge

• English: tool
• Scots: towl

• “tol (n.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

Probably from Old English *tyllan.

toll

1. Alternative form of tollen (“to bring”).

From Late Latin teloneum and Old Norse tollr

toll m (definite singular tollen, indefinite plural toller, definite plural tollene)

1. duty (customs duty, excise duty)
2. customs

   gå gjennom tollen - to go through customs

• tollbod
• tolldeklarasjon
• tollfri

• “toll” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Late Latin teloneum and Old Norse tollr

toll m (definite singular tollen, indefinite plural tollar, definite plural tollane)

1. duty (customs duty, excise duty)
2. customs

   gå gjennom tollen - to go through customs

• tolldeklarasjon
• tollfri

• “toll” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *tollą, from Vulgar Latin toloneum, from Late Latin teloneum, from Ancient Greek τελώνιον (telṓnion, “toll-house”), from τέλος (télos, “tax”). Germanic cognates include Old Saxon tol (Dutch tol), Old High German zol (German Zoll), Old Norse tollr (Swedish tull). See also parallel forms represented by Old English toln.

• IPA^(key): /toll/

toll n

1. tax, toll, fare

• Middle English: toll
  • English: toll
  • Scots: towl

From Old Irish toll (“hole, hollow; buttocks, hindquarters”).

toll m (genitive singular tuill, plural tuill)

1. hole, cavity, puncture, hollow
2. crevice, perforation
3. pit
4. socket
5. (nautical) hold of a ship
6. (vulgar) arse

• gaoth tro tholl (“draught”)
• toll-putain (“buttonhole”)
• tolltach (“full of holes”)

From Old Irish tollaid (“pierces; penetrates”), from toll (“hole, hollow”).

toll (past tholl, future tollaidh, verbal noun tolladh, past participle tollte)

1. bore, piece, drill, perforate

From Proto-Samic *tolë, from Proto-Uralic *tule.

toll

1. fire

• Entry 76247 in Álgu database

From Proto-Samic *tolë, from Proto-Uralic *tule.

toll

1. fire

• Entry 76249 in Álgu database