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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. 




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