Definitions
A fee for passage, a loss count, or a slow ringing sound.
Word origin
From Middle English toll, tol, tolle, from Old English toll m or n and toln f (“toll, duty, custom”), from Proto-West Germanic *toll, *tolnu, from Proto-Germanic *tullaz, *tullō (“that which is counted or told, reckoning”), from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“calculation, fraud”).
Used in a sentence
“Meanwhile, the tolls dispute had gone to the courts, and the E.L.R. was completely successful when, in 1856, the House of Lords awarded it the sum of £30,000 against the L.Y.R. for tolls overcharged.”
“The war has taken its toll on the people.”
“toll ore refining; toll manufacturing”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Fee or cost”4 letters
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