Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

         The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak.

         Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope.