toll

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
2. n. A charge for a service, such as a long-distance telephone call.
3. n. An amount or extent of loss or destruction, as of life, health, or property: "Poverty and inadequate health care take their toll on the quality of a community's health” ( Los Angeles Times).
4. v. To exact as a toll.
5. v. To charge a fee for using (a structure, such as a bridge).
6. v. To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.
7. v. To announce or summon by tolling.
8. v. To sound in slowly repeated single tones.
9. n. The act of tolling.
10. n. The sound of a bell being struck.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A tax paid, or duty imposed, for some use or privilege or other reasonable consideration.
2. n. The payment claimed by the owners of a port for goods landed or shipped there.
3. n. The sum charged by the owners of a market or fair for goods brought to be sold there, or for liberty to break the soil for the purpose of erecting temporary structures.
4. n. A portion of grain retained by a miller as compensation for grinding.
5. n. A fixed charge made by those concerned in the maintenance of roads, streets, bridges, etc., for the passage, as at a toll-gate, of persons, goods, and cattle.
6. n. A compensation for services rendered, especially for transportation or transmission: as, canal tolls, railway tolls, and other charges have raised the price of wheat.
7. n. Synonyms Duty, Tribute, etc. See tax.
8. To pay toll or tailage, as on a purchase.
9. To take toll; exact or levy toll; especially, to take a portion of grain as compensation for grinding.
10. To take as a part of a general contribution or tax; exact as a tribute.
11. To draw; pull; tug; drag.
12. To tear in pieces.
13. To draw; invite; entice; allure.
14. To cause (a bell) to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as for summoning public bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, for announcing a death, or to give solemnity to a funeral; specifically, to ring (a bell) by striking it with a hammer without swinging.
15. To give out or utter by tolling or striking, as the sound of a bell or a clock.
16. To call attention to or give notice of by slowly measured sounds of a bell; ring for or on account of.
17. To give out the slowly measured sounds of a bell when struck singly and at regular intervals, as in calling meetings, or at funerals, or to announce the death of a person.
18. n. The sounding of a bell with slowly measured single strokes.
19. In law, to take away; vacate; annul.

Wiktionary

1. n. Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.
2. n. A fee for using a transportation facility such a road, bridge, or ferry.
3. n. business A fee for using any kind of material processing service.
4. n. US A tollbooth.
5. v. transitive To impose a fee for the use of.
6. v. transitive To levy a toll on (someone or something).
7. v. transitive To take as a toll.
8. n. The act or sound of tolling
9. v. ergative To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.
10. v. transitive To summon by ringing a bell.
11. v. transitive To announce by tolling.
12. v. transitive, obsolete To draw; pull; tug; drag.
13. v. transitive To tear in pieces.
14. v. transitive To draw; entice; invite; allure.
15. v. transitive To lure with bait (especially, fish and animals).
16. v. law, obsolete To take away; to vacate; to annul.
17. v. law To suspend.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. (O. Eng. Law) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
2. v. To draw; to entice; to allure. See tole.
3. v. To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
4. v. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for.
5. v. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
6. v. 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.
7. n. The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
8. 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.
9. n. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
10. n. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
11. v. rare To pay toll or tallage.
12. v. rare To take toll; to raise a tax.
13. v. To collect, as a toll.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
2. n. a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)
3. n. the sound of a bell being struck
4. v. charge a fee for using
5. v. ring slowly