Tole vs. Toll: What's the Difference?

A lacquered or enameled metalware, usually gilded and elaborately painted.

A fixed charge or tax for a privilege, especially for passage across a bridge or along a road.

A decorative metalware having a lacquered or enamelled surface that is painted or gilded.

A charge for a service, such as a telephone call to another country.

(historical) A portion of grain paid to the miller who grinds it.

An amount or extent of loss or destruction, as of life, health, or property

(archaic) To entice; to allure or attract.

The act of tolling.

To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait.

The sound of a bell being struck.

Enameled or lacquered metalware (usually gilded and elaborately painted); popular in the 18th century;

To exact as a toll.

To charge a fee for using (a structure, such as a bridge).

To sound (a large bell) slowly at regular intervals.

To announce or summon by tolling.

To sound in slowly repeated single tones.

A fee paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, etc.

Loss or damage incurred through a disaster.

(business) A fee for using any kind of material processing service.

(US) A tollbooth.

A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

The act or sound of tolling.

(transitive) To impose a fee for the use of.

(ambitransitive) To levy a toll on (someone or something).

(transitive) To take as a toll.

To pay a toll or tallage.

(ergative) To ring (a bell) slowly and repeatedly.

(transitive) To summon by ringing a bell.

(transitive) To announce by tolling.

(figuratively) To make a sound as if made by a bell.

To draw; pull; tug; drag.

(transitive) To tear in pieces.

(transitive) To draw; entice; invite; allure.

(transitive) To lure with bait; tole (especially, fish and animals).

To take away; to vacate; to annul.

(legal) To suspend.

To take away; to vacate; to annul.

To draw; to entice; to allure. See Tole.

To cause to sound, as a bell, with strokes slowly and uniformly repeated; as, to toll the funeral bell.

To strike, or to indicate by striking, as the hour; to ring a toll for; as, to toll a departed friend.

To call, summon, or notify, by tolling or ringing.

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.

To pay toll or tallage.

To take toll; to raise a tax.

To collect, as a toll.

The sound of a bell produced by strokes slowly and uniformly repeated.

A tax paid for some liberty or privilege, particularly for the privilege of passing over a bridge or on a highway, or for that of vending goods in a fair, market, or the like.

A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

A portion of grain taken by a miller as a compensation for grinding.

A fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance)

Value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something;

The sound of a bell being struck;

Ring slowly;

Charge a fee for using;