How to pronounce toll

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What toll means

verb

Most people know toll in its everyday sense. Here's its other meaning.

To ring a bell slowly, with even strokes

In a sentence: We heard the bell in the old clock tower toll twelve times at noon.

Where it comes from: It is probably the same word as an old toll that meant to pull or draw. It is a different word from toll, the fee.

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