One of the branches of the king of Persia's revenues (Ezra 4:13; 7:24), probably a tax levied from those who used the bridges and fords and highways.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

1. (v. t.) To take away; to vacate; to annul.

2. (v. t.) To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

3. (v. t.) To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.

4. (v. t.) To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.

5. (v. t.) To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

6. (v. i.) 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.

7. (n.) The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

8. (n.) A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

9. (n.) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

10. (n.) A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

11. (v. i.) To pay toll or tallage.

12. (v. i.) To take toll; to raise a tax.

13. (v. t.) To collect, as a toll.