toll

noun

1. a tax or charge for a privilege, esp. for permission to pass over a bridge, along a highway, etc.
2. a charge for service or extra service, as for transportation, for a long-distance telephone call, or, formerly, for having one's grain milled
3. the number lost, taken, exacted, etc.; exaction: the tornado took a heavy toll of lives

intransitive verb

transitive verb

1. to take or gather as a toll
2. to impose a toll on

transitive verb

1. Now Chiefly Dial. to allure or entice; esp., to decoy (game, etc.)
2. 1. to ring (a church bell, etc.) slowly with regularly repeated strokes, esp. for announcing a death
   2. to sound (the hour, a knell, etc.) by this
   3. to announce, summon, or dismiss by this
   4. to announce the death of (someone) in this way

intransitive verb

noun

1. the act of tolling a bell
2. the sound of a bell tolling
3. a single stroke of the bell