toll : Idioms & Phrases

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death toll

  • noun the number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster
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Port toll

  • (Law), a payment made for the privilege of bringing goods into port.
Webster 1913

toll agent

  • noun someone employed to collect tolls
    toller; tollkeeper; toll agent; toll collector; tollgatherer; tollman.
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Toll and team

  • (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins. Burrill.
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Toll bar

  • a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers.
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Toll bridge

  • noun a bridge where toll is charged for crossing
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  • a bridge where toll is paid for passing over it.
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toll call

  • noun a long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate
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toll collector

  • noun someone employed to collect tolls
    toller; tollkeeper; toll agent; toll collector; tollgatherer; tollman.
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Toll corn

  • corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill.
Webster 1913

Toll dish

  • a dish for measuring toll in mills.
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Toll gatherer

  • a man who takes, or gathers, toll.
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Toll hop

  • a toll dish. Obs. Crabb.
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  • noun cookies containing chocolate chips
    chocolate chip cookie.
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toll line

  • noun a telephone line for long-distance calls
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toll plaza

  • noun an area where tollbooths are located
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toll road

  • noun an expressway on which tolls are collected
    turnpike.
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toll taker

  • noun someone employed to collect tolls
    toller; tollkeeper; toll agent; toll collector; tollgatherer; tollman.
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Toll thorough

  • (Eng. Law), toll taken by a town for beasts driven through it, or over a bridge or ferry maintained at its cost. Brande & C.
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Toll traverse

  • (Eng. Law), toll taken by an individual for beasts driven across his ground; toll paid by a person for passing over the private ground, bridge, ferry, or the like, of another.
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Toll turn

  • (Eng. Law), a toll paid at the return of beasts from market, though they were not sold. Burrill.
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toll-free

  • adjective having no toll levied for its use
    • a toll-free road
    • a toll-free telephone number
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