n. A tax paid, or duty imposed, for some use or privilege or other reasonable consideration.n. The payment claimed by the owners of a port for goods landed or shipped there.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.n. A portion of grain retained by a miller as compensation for grinding.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.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.n. Synonyms Duty, Tribute, etc. See tax.To pay toll or tailage, as on a purchase.To take toll; exact or levy toll; especially, to take a portion of grain as compensation for grinding.To take as a part of a general contribution or tax; exact as a tribute.To draw; pull; tug; drag.To tear in pieces.To draw; invite; entice; allure.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.To give out or utter by tolling or striking, as the sound of a bell or a clock.To call attention to or give notice of by slowly measured sounds of a bell; ring for or on account of.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.n. The sounding of a bell with slowly measured single strokes.In law, to take away; vacate; annul.