Now dial. (Kent to Hampsh.) Also 7 tolle, 9 tole. [Origin not ascertained.] A clump of trees.
1644. G. Plattes, in Hartlib’s Legacy (1655), 245. Feeding of Cattel in racks under a tolle of trees.
1892. A. J. Butler, trans. Marbot’s Mem., I. ii. 13. My father stopped his carriage by the famous toll [orig. devant l’arbre remarquable] under which the Constable Montmorency was made prisoner by the troops of Louis XIII.
