Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TOLL
TOLL, v.t.1 [supra.]
To cause a bell to sound with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated, as for summoning pubic bodies or religious congregations to their meetings, or for announcing the death of a person, or to give solemnity to a funeral. Tolling is a different thing from ringing.
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