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1 tollum, ~a [AS toll; cf. et. tolneum, CL teloneum], payment exacted as impost, toll. b duty to pay toll. c right to exact toll. 1247 habere debent totum tolum quod ‥ potest accidere in spatio predicto (Farnham) BBC 252; 1425 concessisse ‥ fratribus ‥ integram illam ~am sive custumam que per ‥ nos recipi solebat ad finem pontis de N. (Ch. Dumfries) Scot. Grey Friars II 101; 1444 ad recipiendum et colligendum ‥ tholoneum sive ~um nostrum Reg. Heref. 258.  b † c1074 concedo ‥ ut ‥ [ecclesia] emat cibum et vestimentum ‥ sine ~o (Evesham) Regesta 13; quod ‥ conservaret eos ‥ indempnes de omnibus tallagiis, exactionibus, et ~is Leg. Ant. Lond. 148.  c in detrimentum libertatum S. Edmundi, cui S. Edwardus ~um et themum et omnia jura regalia concessit Brakelond f. 142v; 1331 quod ‥ burgenses ‥ teneant predictas libertates ‥ cum socha et sacha et ~a et theam PQW 17b.
2 tollum [ME tol, tole], tool (in quot., transf.). 15‥ the fryers first lesson [to the nunne] was “veni ad me / et ponam tollum meum ad te” [cf. Matth. xii 18] (Eng. Carols) Rev. English Stud. n. s. XXXII 15.

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