toll² /tōl/

1. A tax for the privilege of using a bridge or road, selling goods in a market, etc
2. A portion of grain kept by a miller in payment for grinding
3. A place where there is or was or might have been a building for collecting road tolls or tollbar, a road junction (Scot)
4. The cost in damage, injury or lives
5. A toll call

To take or pay tolls

1. To take toll of
2. To take as a toll

tollˈable adjective

Subject to toll

tollˈage noun

1. Payment of toll
2. The right to charge a toll
3. The amount paid as toll

tollˈer noun

A person who collects a toll

tolsel /tōlˈsel/, tolzey /-zi/ or tolsey /tolˈsi/ noun

Local names for a tolbooth or exchange (appar from OE seld seat, or sǣl hall)

tolbooth or tollbooth /tōlˈ, tolˈbooth, -boodh, also (Scot) -bəth/ noun

1. An office where tolls are or were collected
2. A town hall (Scot)
3. A prison (Scot)
4. Often a building combining a town hall and a prison (Scot)

toll bar noun

A movable bar across a road, etc, to stop travellers liable to pay a toll

tollˈbridge or tollˈgate noun

A bridge or gate where tolls are collected

toll call noun

1. A short-distance telephone trunk call
2. A long-distance telephone call at a charge above the local rate (N American)
3. A long-distance telephone call to a place outside a free-dialling area (NZ)

tollˈdish noun

A dish for measuring the toll of grain in a mill

toll-freeˈ adjective and adverb

tollˈ-gatherer noun

1. A person who collects a toll, eg at a tollbridge or tollgate
2. A person who collects taxes

tollˈhouse noun

A house at a tollbridge, tollgate, etc used by the collector of tolls

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