tolling

The use of toll-bait to attract fish; the practice or method of drawing fish, as a school of mackerel, by means of gurry, chum, or stosh thrown overboard. The tolling is done by one of a crew while the others fish.

Plural Toll-bait.

A method of decoying or luring ducks. See the quotation.

The act of sounding a bell. See toll.

The sound produced by a bell under single measured strokes of the clapper.