English Dictionary: Tolling | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Toll \Toll\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tolling}.] 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. The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak. Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope. |