Tolling

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Toll \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.
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           The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak.
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           Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "tolling":
     change ringing, chime, chiming, chink, clang, clanging, clangor,
     clank, clanking, clink, death bell, ding, ding-a-ling, dingdong,
     dinging, dingle, donging, funeral ring, jangle, jingle,
     jingle-jangle, jingling, knell, knelling, passing bell, peal,
     peal ringing, pealing, ring, ringing, sounding, ting, ting-a-ling,
     tingle, tingling, tink, tinkle, tinkling, tinnitus, tintinnabular,
     tintinnabulary, tintinnabulous, toll