To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals, To announce or summon by 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, transitive verb_ To draw; to entice; to allure. See tole, To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing, To collect, as a toll, noun_ a man who takes, or gathers, toll, a bridge where toll is paid for passing over it, a bar or beam used on a canal for stopping boats at the tollhouse, or on a road for stopping passengers