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Topic: TEXTURES, SOUNDS

Date: 1400-1500
Origin: Probably from Old English -tyllan 'to pull'

toll

2 verb
     
toll2 [intransitive and transitive]
CS if a large bell tolls, or if you toll it, it keeps ringing slowly, especially to show that someone has died
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