Definitions for tolls

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tolls toll

Spelling: [tohl]

IPA: /toʊl/

Tolls is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in tolls (llost).

Definitions for tolls

noun

1. a payment or fee exacted by the state, the local authorities, etc., for some right or privilege, as for passage along a road or over a bridge.
2. the extent of loss, damage, suffering, etc., resulting from some action or calamity:
3. a tax, duty, or tribute, as for services or use of facilities.
4. a payment made for a long-distance telephone call.
5. (formerly, in England) the right to take such payment.
6. a compensation for services, as for transportation or transmission.
7. grain retained by a miller in payment for grinding.
8. the act of tolling a bell.
9. one of the strokes made in tolling a bell.
10. the sound made.

verb (used with object)

1. to collect (something) as toll.
2. to impose a tax or toll on (a person).
3. to cause (a large bell) to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as for summoning a congregation to church, or especially for announcing a death.
4. to sound or strike (a knell, the hour, etc.) by such strokes:
5. to announce by this means; ring a knell for (a dying or dead person).
6. to summon or dismiss by tolling.
7. to lure or decoy (game) by arousing curiosity.
8. to allure; entice:
9. to suspend or interrupt (as a statute of limitations).

verb (used without object)

1. to collect toll; levy toll.
2. to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as a bell.

Origin of tolls

before 1000; (noun) Middle English, Old English toll (cognate with Dutch tol, German Zoll, Old Norse tollr), assimilated variant of Old English toln Late Latin tolōnēum, for telōnēum Greek te

Examples for tolls

“The amount of literal brainwork needed to do his job too such a toll on him that it sent him to an early grave,” Goode says.

Because, as goddess of the land, she claims her toll, the toll of human blood.

While the look worked for some, the combination of heat and chemicals took a toll on the hair of others.

Come on, stand up, brother, father, toll the tocsin [alarm bell]!

At the first stroke of twelve the prison-bell began to toll.

We were within the vestibule before he had begun to toll the years.

Unemployment and the lack of opportunities for young men are taking their toll.

And though Omran seems truly happy to see me, the last couple of years, and few weeks in particular, have taken their toll on him.

Suddenly the bell began to toll with slow and regular strokes.

The church bell began to toll, and Kate started up and listened.