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tolling

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toll 1  (tl)
n.
1. A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.
2. A charge for a service, such as a long-distance telephone call.
3. An amount or extent of loss or destruction, as of life, health, or property: "Poverty and inadequate health care take their toll on the quality of a community's health" (Los Angeles Times).
tr.v. tolled, toll·ing, tolls
1. To exact as a toll.
2. To charge a fee for using (a structure, such as a bridge).

[Middle English, from Old English, variant of toln, from Medieval Latin tolnum, from Latin telnum, tollbooth, from Greek telneion, from telns, tax collector, from telos, tax; see tel- in Indo-European roots.]

toll 2  (tl)
v. tolled, toll·ing, tolls
v.tr.
1. To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.
2. To announce or summon by tolling.
v.intr.
To sound in slowly repeated single tones.
n.
1. The act of tolling.
2. The sound of a bell being struck.

[Middle English tollen, to ring an alarm, perhaps from tollen, to entice, pull, variant of tillen, from Old English -tyllan.]
Translations
tolling [ˈtəʊlɪŋ] Ntañido m, doblar m
tolling
n no plLäuten nt


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Not many days after we heard the church-bell tolling for a long time, and looking over the gate we saw a long, strange black coach that was covered with black cloth and was drawn by black horses; after that came another and another and another, and all were black, while the bell kept tolling, tolling.
Perhaps, with momentary truth of feeling, she thought how much happier had been her fate, if, after years of bliss, the bell were now tolling for her funeral, and she were followed to the grave by the old affection of her earliest lover, long her husband.
Its recurrence was regular, but as slow as the tolling of a death knell.
 
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