TOLLS
5
Scrabble
7
WWF
T(1) O(1) L(1) L(1) S(1)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
noun
- Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.“The war has taken its toll on the people.”
- A fee 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, etc.
- A fee for using any kind of material processing service.“We can handle on a toll basis your needs for spray drying, repackaging, crushing and grinding, and dry blending.”
verb
- To impose a fee for the use of.“Once more it is proposed to toll the East River bridges.”
- To levy a toll on (someone or something).
- To take as a toll.
noun
- The act or sound of tolling
verb
- To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.“Ask not for whom the bell tolls.”
- To summon by ringing a bell.“The ringer tolled the workers back from the fields for vespers.”
- To announce by tolling.“The bells tolled the King’s death.”
verb
- To draw; pull; tug; drag.
- To tear in pieces.
- To draw; entice; invite; allure.“Hou many virgins shal she tolle and drawe to þe Lord - "Life of Our Lady"”
verb
- To take away; to vacate; to annul.
- To suspend.“The statute of limitations defense was tolled as a result of the defendant’s wrongful conduct.”
Source: Wiktionary
Hooks
Front hooks: A-TOLLS
