toll

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.
• intransitive verb To announce or summon by tolling.
• intransitive verb To sound in slowly repeated single tones.
• noun The act of tolling.
• noun The sound of a bell being struck.
• noun A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
• noun A charge for a service, such as a telephone call to another country.
• noun An amount or extent of loss or destruction, as of life, health, or property.
• transitive verb To exact as a toll.
• transitive verb To charge a fee for using (a structure, such as a bridge).

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A tax paid, or duty imposed, for some use or privilege or other reasonable consideration.
• noun The payment claimed by the owners of a port for goods landed or shipped there.
• noun The sum charged by the owners of a market or fair for goods brought to be sold there, or for liberty to break the soil for the purpose of erecting temporary structures.
• noun A portion of grain retained by a miller as compensation for grinding.
• noun A fixed charge made by those concerned in the maintenance of roads, streets, bridges, etc., for the passage, as at a toll-gate, of persons, goods, and cattle.
• noun A compensation for services rendered, especially for transportation or transmission: as, canal tolls, railway tolls, and other charges have raised the price of wheat.
• noun Synonyms Duty, Tribute, etc. See tax.
• To pay toll or tailage, as on a purchase.
• To take toll; exact or levy toll; especially, to take a portion of grain as compensation for grinding.
• To take as a part of a general contribution or tax; exact as a tribute.
• To draw; pull; tug; drag.
• To tear in pieces.
• To draw; invite; entice; allure.
• To cause (a bell) to sound with single strokes slowly and regularly repeated, as for summoning public bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, for announcing a death, or to give solemnity to a funeral; specifically, to ring (a bell) by striking it with a hammer without swinging.
• To give out or utter by tolling or striking, as the sound of a bell or a clock.
• To call attention to or give notice of by slowly measured sounds of a bell; ring for or on account of.
• To give out the slowly measured sounds of a bell when struck singly and at regular intervals, as in calling meetings, or at funerals, or to announce the death of a person.
• noun The sounding of a bell with slowly measured single strokes.
• In law, to take away; vacate; annul.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb (O. Eng. Law) To take away; to vacate; to annul.
• intransitive verb To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.
• transitive verb To draw; to entice; to allure. See tole.
• transitive verb To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
• transitive verb To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for.
• transitive verb To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.
• transitive verb To collect, as a toll.
• intransitive verb rare To pay toll or tallage.
• intransitive verb rare To take toll; to raise a tax.
• noun The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.
• noun A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.
• noun (Sax. & O. Eng. Law) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.
• noun A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.
• noun (O. Eng. Law) the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins.
• noun a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers.
• noun a bridge where toll is paid for passing over it.
• noun corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill.
• noun a dish for measuring toll in mills.
• noun a man who takes, or gathers, toll.
• noun [Obs.] a toll dish.
• noun (Eng. Law) toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost.