[TOLL sb.1 2 a (b).] A dish or bowl of stated dimensions for measuring the toll of grain at a mill; a multure-dish.

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a. 1500.  Mery Jest of Mylner of Abyngton, 50, in Hazl., E. P. P., III. 102. The mylner was so trewe and fele, Of each mannes corne wolde he steale More than his toledish by a deale.

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c. 1585.  Faire Em, I. 168. You are too fyne to be a Millers daughter: For if you should but stoope to take vp the tole dish You will haue the crampe in your finger At least ten weekes after.

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1623.  Fletcher & Rowley, Maid in Mill, III. ii. A Lord, a Miller? Take your toal-dish with ye.

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1726.  Ayliffe, Parergon, 505. Corn Mills pay Tithes in Kind as Mills, which is the tenth Toll-dish.

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1778.  Eng. Gazetteer (ed. 2), s.v. Farnham, The toll-dish here was once reckoned worth 200l. a year.

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1820.  Scott, Ivanhoe, xi. The thieves … crying to their comrade, ‘Miller! beware thy toll-dish.’

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