a. Free from toll; exempt from payment of toll. (Usually in predicative or adverbial construction.)

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1052–67.  Charter of Eadweard, in Kemble, Cod. Dipl., IV. 209. Tolfreo ofer ealle Engleland, wiðinne burhe and wiðutan.

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1277.  Brit. Mus. Add. Charter, 51563. [Pannage and other rights are granted] cum hopirfre et tolfre in omnibus molendinis meis.

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1494.  Fabyan, Chron., VII. 327. That ye cytezens of London shulde passe toll fre thorough all Englande.

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1523.  Fitzherb., Surv., 10. Some men to be tole free, and some to be hopper fre.

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1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit. (1637), 493. He obtained that it might bee every where Toll-free.

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1723.  Newcastle Weekly Courant 3 Aug., 5. Three Articles, proposed on the Part of the Emperor of Russia to the King of Denmark, for preventing a Rupture…. 2dly, To let the Russian Ships pass Toll-free thro’ the Sound.

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1829.  Scott, Anne of G., x. Such wares will not pass toll-free where Archibald of Hagenbach hath authority.

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