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toll¹

(tōl)

1. A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.

2. A charge for a service, such as a telephone call to another country.

3. 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).

tr.v. tolled, toll·ing, tolls

1. To exact as a toll.

2. To charge a fee for using (a structure, such as a bridge).

[Middle English tol, from Old English, variant of toln, from Medieval Latin tolōnīum, from Latin telōnēum, tollbooth, from Greek telōneion, from telōnēs, tax collector, from telos, tax; see telə- in Indo-European roots.]

toll²

(tōl)

v. tolled, toll·ing, tolls

v.tr.

1. To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.

2. To announce or summon by tolling.

v.intr.

To sound in slowly repeated single tones.

1. The act of tolling.

2. The sound of a bell being struck.

[Middle English tollen, to ring an alarm, perhaps from tollen, to entice, pull, variant of tillen, from Old English -tyllan.]

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Translations

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tolling

[ˈtəʊlɪŋ] N → tañido m, doblar m

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tolling

n no pl → Läuten nt

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

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And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the pæan of the bells - Of the bells: - Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the throbbing of the bells - Of the bells, bells, bells - To the sobbing of the bells: - Keeping time, time, time, As he knells, knells, knells, In a happy Runic rhyme, To the rolling of the bells - Of the bells, bells, bells: - To the tolling of the bells - Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells - To the moaning and the groaning of the bells.

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Not many days after we heard the church-bell tolling for a long time, and looking over the gate we saw a long, strange black coach that was covered with black cloth and was drawn by black horses; after that came another and another and another, and all were black, while the bell kept tolling, tolling.

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Perhaps, with momentary truth of feeling, she thought how much happier had been her fate, if, after years of bliss, the bell were now tolling for her funeral, and she were followed to the grave by the old affection of her earliest lover, long her husband.

The train of withered mourners, the hoary bridegroom in his shroud, the pale features of the aged bride, and the death-bell tolling through the whole, till its deep voice overpowered the marriage words, all marked the funeral of earthly hopes.

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I had heard of corpse candles, and at last I persuaded myself that this must be a corpse bell tolling of itself at midnight for the dead.

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And the clock, in the altar on which Iphigenia was situated, beginning, after a preparatory convulsion, to toll twelve, the mere tolling seemed as if it would last until one--so prolonged was the knell to the anxious spinster.

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But there was a sound here which interrupted the stillness only to add to its mournfulness; this was the faint far sound of tolling bells which floated fitfully to us on the passing breeze, and so faintly, so softly, that we hardly knew whether we heard it with our ears or with our spirits.

Good old ques- tionable stories were told that made the tears run down and cavernous mouths stand wide and the round bellies shake with laughter; and questionable songs were bellowed out in a mighty chorus that drowned the boom of the tolling bells.

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ENPNewswire-August 29, 2019--Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - CASHLESS TOLLING COMING TO GOETHALS BRIDGE ON SEPTEMBER 4, CONTINUING PORT AUTHORITY TRANSITION TO CASHLESS SYSTEMS AT ALL AGENCY CROSSINGS

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey - CASHLESS TOLLING COMING TO GOETHALS BRIDGE ON SEPTEMBER 4, CONTINUING PORT AUTHORITY TRANSITION TO CASHLESS SYSTEMS AT ALL AGENCY CROSSINGS

Each time your vehicle passes through a tolling point, an amount of Dh4 will be deducted from your prepaid toll account during peak hours and an amount of Dh2 during non-peak hours.

Abu Dhabi Toll Gates: Everything you need to know

AS WALES has only recently got rid of its last remaining tolls - on the Severn Crossing and on the Cleddau Bridge - I was surprised to see that Wales CBI is saying that they would support the tolling of an M4 relief road.

M4 relief road tolls would be a disaster

According to the tolling policy approved by the National Highway Council (NHC), a toll plaza can be established after every 35 to 60km on National Highways while revenue collected from road users on these toll plazas is supposed to be used for maintenance and road safety of national highways and motorways.

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