Also 5 tollare. [f. TOLL, TOLE v.1 + -ER1.]
† 1. One who ‘tolls,’ entices, or instigates. Obs.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 496/1. Tollare or styrare to do goode or badde, excitator, instigator.
2. A decoy; spec. a dog of a small breed used in decoying ducks: see TOLL v.1 2. Also attrib. U.S.
1874. J. W. Long, Amer. Wild-fowl, iii. 72. For deep-water ducks, three or four decoys as tolers may be set out to leeward. Ibid., xxv. 250. Most persons on these waters have a race of small, white or liver-colored dogs, which they familiarly call the toler breed.
