tolled

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tolled - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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