Now rare. [f. TOLL sb.1]
1. intr. To take or collect toll; to exact or levy toll.
a. 1350. [see TOLLING vbl. sb.3].
c. 1386. Chaucer, Prol., 562. Wel koude he stelen corn, and tollen thries And yet he hadde a thombe of gold pardee.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 496/1. Tollyn, or make tolle…, multo.
1530. Palsgr., 759/1. I tolle, I take the tolle, as a baylyfe dothe in a fayre or market…. I tolle, as a myller doth, je prens le tollyu.
1576. Gascoigne, Steele Gl. (Arb.), 79. When millers toll not with a golden thumbe.
1595. Shaks., John, III. i. 154. No Italian priest Shall tythe or toll in our dominions.
a. 1658. Cleveland, Sing-Song, xxx. He toll’d for the rest of the Grist.
1886. [see TOLLING vbl. sb.3].
2. trans. To take toll of (something); to exact a part of by way of toll.
1399. Langl., Rich. Redeles, III. 81. And tymed no twynte, but tolled her cornes, And gaderid þe grotus with gyle, as I trowe.
1546. [see TOLLING vbl. sb.3].
1591. Troub. Raigne K. John (1611), 62. Till I had tithde and tolde their holy hoords.
1686. W. Hedges, Diary (Hakl. Soc.), I. 230. Here we were mett by ye Customer of Diarbekeer, who tolled our loads, and tooke ye custom & dutys of all the 3 places.
1794. Mary Wollstonecraft, Hist. View Fr. Rev., I. 76. The poor husbandman,… afterwards forced to carry the scanty crop to be tolled at the mill of monseigneur.
1894. Westm. Gaz., 26 May, 5/2. The company-promoting system, whereby the City sharper tolls the savings of the credulous investor.
b. To charge (a person, etc.) with a toll, impose a toll upon, exact a toll from.
1583. Melbancke, Philotimus, Dd ij b. Aegeon … doeth scoure the Seas, and toules the trafficke of trading merchauntes.
1592. trans. Junius on Rev. xiii. 1. What time the Empire of Rome … was mightily tolled, hauing euer and an one new heads.
1897. Daily News, 2 Nov., 6/3. You have only to cross the bridge and you are sure to be tolled.
1912. M. Hewlett in Eng. Rev., April, 10. All [must] be tolled By Charon in his dark-prowed boat.
c. To take or gather (something) as toll.
1597. Shaks., 2 Hen. IV., IV. v. 75 (Qo.). Like the bee toling from euery flower [Folios culling from euery flower The vertuous Sweetes].
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., I. 189. Writers, like bees, toll their sweets in the wide world.
† 3. intr. To pay toll; to toll for (spec.), to enter (a horse, etc.) for sale in the toll-book of a market.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. XIV. 51 For þe lawe askeþ Marchauns for here merchaundise in meny place to tollen.
1530. Palsgr., 759/1. I tolle … as they that come to the myll, je paye le tollyu. You shal tolle, or you go, or I wyll tolle for you.
1537. Boorde, Lett., in Introd. Knowl. (1870), Forewords 62. They þat bowght þem dyd neuer toll for them.
1596. Bacon, Use Com. Law (1636), 63. If hee bee a horse hee must bee ridden two houres in the market or faire, between ten and five a clock, and tolled for in the toll-book.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, V. iii. 149. I will buy me a sonne in Law in a faire, and toule for this. Ile none of him.
1664. Butler, Hud., II. I. 698. Where, when, by whom, and what y’were sold for, And in the open Market toll’d for?
b. trans. (in same sense.)
1697. Lond. Gaz., No. 3310/4. The Person who exposed him to Sale being required to Toll him withdrew himself, by which it was conjectured he was stole.
