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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The use of toll-bait to attract fish; the practice or method of drawing fish, as a school of mackerel, by means of gurry, chum, or stosh thrown overboard. The tolling is done by one of a crew while the others fish.
  • noun plural Toll-bait.
  • noun A method of decoying or luring ducks. See the quotation.
  • noun The act of sounding a bell. See toll.
  • noun The sound produced by a bell under single measured strokes of the clapper.
  • noun A peculiar bell-like sound said to be made by bees before they swarm.

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  • verb Present participle of toll.

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