tolling

noun

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.

noun

plural Toll-bait.

noun

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

noun

The act of sounding a bell. See toll.

noun

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

noun

A peculiar bell-like sound said to be made by bees before they swarm.

verb

Present participle of toll.