Chapter Tolerate to Ton of T by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

2. (Sax. & O. Eng. Law) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

3. A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

Toll and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins. Burrill. — Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers. — Toll bridge, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over it. — Toll corn, corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill. — Toll dish, a dish for measuring toll in mills. — Toll gatherer, a man who takes, or gathers, toll. — Toll hop, a toll dish. [Obs.] Crabb. — Toll thorough (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. Brande & C. — Toll traverse (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for beasts driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for passing over the private ground, bridge, ferry, or the like, of another. — Toll turn (Eng. Law), a toll paid at the return of beasts from market, though they were not sold. Burrill.

Syn. — Tax; custom; duty; impost.

Toll
(Toll) v. i.

1. To pay toll or tallage. [R.] Shak.

2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.]

Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice.

Chaucer.

No Italian priest
Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.

Shak.

Toll
(Toll), v. t. To collect, as a toll. Shak.

Tollable
(Toll"a*ble) a. Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods. Wright.

Tollage
(Toll"age) n. Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll. Drayton.

Tollbooth
(Toll"booth`) n. [Toll a tax + booth.] [Written also tolbooth.]

1. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.]

He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth.

Wyclif

2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. Sir W. Scott.

Tollbooth
(Toll"booth`), v. t. To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.]

That they might tollbooth Oxford men.

Bp. Corbet.

Toller
(Toll"er) n. [AS. tollere.] A toll gatherer. "Tollers in markets." Piers Plowman.

Toller
(Toll"er), n. One who tolls a bell.

Tolletane
(Tol"le*tane) a. [L. Toletanus.] Of or pertaining to Toledo in Spain; made in Toledo. [Obs.] "Tables Tolletanes." Chaucer.

Tollgate
(Toll"gate`) n. A gate where toll is taken.

Tollhouse
(Toll"house`) n.; pl. Tollhouses A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.

Tollman
(Toll"man) n.; pl. Tollmen One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer. Cowper.