Toll, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tolled p. pr. & vb. n. 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.
The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak.
Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope.