Slow tolls the village clock the drowsy hour. Beattie.

When hollow murmurs of their evening bells
Dismiss the sleepy swains, and toll them to their cells. Dryden.

The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. Shak.

Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. Pope.

Toll and team (O. Eng. Law), the privilege of having a market, and jurisdiction of villeins. Burrill. -- Toll bar, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers. -- Toll bridge, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over it. -- Toll corn, corn taken as pay for grinding at a mill. -- Toll dish, a dish for measuring toll in mills. -- Toll gatherer, a man who takes, or gathers, toll. -- Toll hop, a toll dish. [Obs.] Crabb. -- 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. -- 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. -- Toll turn (Eng. Law), a toll paid at the return of beasts from market, though they were not sold. Burrill.

Syn. -- Tax; custom; duty; impost.

Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice. Chaucer.

No Italian priest
Shall tithe or toll in our dominions. Shak.