TOLL
Toll, v. t. Etym: [See Tole.]
1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.
2. Etym: [Probably the same word as toll to draw, and at first meaning, to ring in order to draw people to church.]
Defn: To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell. "The sexton tolled the bell." Hood.
3. To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend. Shak. Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour. Beattie.
4. To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing. When hollow murmurs of their evening bells Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells. Dryden.
TOLL
Toll, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Tolling.]
Defn: 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.
The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. Shak.
Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. Pope.
TOLL
Toll, n.
Defn: The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.