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• Toll — Toll, v. t. [See {Tole}.] 1. To draw; to entice; to allure. See {Tole}. [1913 Webster] 2. [Probably the same word as toll to draw, and at first meaning, to ring in order to draw people to church.] To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• toll — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English, from Vulgar Latin *tolonium, alteration of Late Latin telonium customhouse, from Greek tolōnion, from telōnēs collector of tolls, from telos tax, toll; perhaps akin to Greek tlēnai to bear Date …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• toll — 01. The bell [tolled], signaling that the church service was about to begin. 02. At our old school, they used to [toll] a bell when it was time to come in. 03. All across the country, church bells [tolled] in mourning for the death of the… …   Grammatical examples in English

• toll — [[t]to͟ʊl[/t]] tolls, tolling, tolled 1) V ERG When a bell tolls or when someone tolls it, it rings slowly and repeatedly, often as a sign that someone has died. Church bells tolled and black flags fluttered... [V n] The pilgrims tolled the bell …   English dictionary

• toll — {{11}}toll (n.) tax, fee, O.E. toll, variant of toln, cognate with O.N. tollr, O.Fris. tolen, O.H.G. zol, Ger. Zoll, representing an early Germanic borrowing from L.L. tolonium custom house, from L. telonium tollhouse, from Gk. teloneion… …   Etymology dictionary

• toll of the bells — sound bells make; call, cry, invitation …   English contemporary dictionary

• When Eight Bells Toll — Infobox Book name = When Eight Bells Toll title orig = translator = image caption = Paperback cover author = Alistair MacLean illustrator = cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English series = genre = Thriller novel publisher =… …   Wikipedia

• When Eight Bells Toll (1971 film) — Infobox Film name = When Eight Bells Toll image size = 120px caption = When Eight Bells Toll director = Etienne Perier producer = Jerry Gershwin, Elliot Kastner writer = Alistair MacLean narrator = starring = Anthony Hopkins Jack Hawkins Robert… …   Wikipedia

• Balangiga bells — The Balangiga bells are three church bells taken by United States forces from the town church of Balangiga, Eastern Samar in the Philippines as war booty after reprisals following the Balangiga incident in 1901 during the Philippine American War …   Wikipedia

• Jingle Bells — Schlittenpferde mit Geläut Jingle Bells (etwa Klingt (ihr) Glöckchen; gemeint sind die Schellen am Pferdegeschirr) ist ein Winterlied, das zwischen 1850 und 1857 vom amerikanischen Komponisten James Lord Pierpont (1822 1893) (oft… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Funeral toll — Church bells are rung at Christian funeral services as they are rung at other services. The ringing of bells occurs in three basic ways: Normal ringing, chiming, or tolling. Normal ringing refers to the ringing of a bell or bells at a rate of… …   Wikipedia