The Meaning of toll

• (v. t.) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
• (v. t.) To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
• (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.
• (v. t.) To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.
• (v. t.) To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
• (v. i.) 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.
• (n.) The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
• (n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
• (v. i.) To pay toll or tallage.
• (v. i.) To take toll; to raise a tax.
• (v. t.) To collect, as a toll.

Synonyms

price , cost , bell

Homophones

toal , toelle , tole

Rhymes

amphibole , anatole , atoll , bankroll , blowhole , boal , boehl , bohl , bole , boll , bowl , buol , buttonhole , cajole , casserole , charcoal , coal , coale , cole , colle , console , control , cubbyhole , decontrol , devaul , dhole , dipole , doell , dole , droll , ecole , enroll , espanol , extol , fishbowl , flagpole , foal , foale , fohl , foxhole , glycerol , glycol , goal , gohl , groll , hoel , hohl , hole , interpol , keyhole , knoell , knoll , koehl , koelle , kohl , kol , kole , lodgepole , loophole , madole , manhole , mcdole , metropol , mohl , mole , monopole , nicole , nicolle , nohl , nole , noll , ohl , ole , oriole , pajole , parole , patrol , payroll , pfohl , pigeonhole , pinhole , pistole , poehl , pohl , pole , poll , pothole , redpoll , rock-and-roll , roehl , roell , roelle , rohl , rol , role , roll , rolle , schaul , scroll , self-control , seoul , shoal , shole , sinkhole , skoal , sohl , sole , soul , sowle , stole , stoll , strohl , strole , stroll , tadpole , thoele , thole , toal , toelle , tole , troll , voell , walpole , whole , woehl , wohl