tol

Back slang for lot.

tol (plural tols)

1. (obsolete, costermongers) Lot
   • 1851, Mayhew, Henry, “Habits and Amusements of Costermongers”, in London Labour and the London Poor‎, volume 1, page 11:

     Business topics are discussed in a most peculiar style. One man takes the pipe from his mouth and says, "Bill made a doogheno hit this morning." "Jem," says another, to a man just entering, "you'll stand a top o' reeb?" "On," answers Jem, "I've had a trosseno tol, and have been doing dab."

   • 1978, Ayers, Rose, The Street Sparrows:

     "Give me two gen, then, and take the whole bloody tol. I've walked me teef orf afore rouf this mornin', and wot 'ave I got? Two bloody yenneps! I ask yer."

• LTO, Lot, OTL, lot

From a contraction of the determiner tou (“all”) + masculine singular article el (“the”).

tol m (feminine tola, neuter tolo, masculine plural tolos, feminine plural toles)

1. all the

tol

1. three

• Steve Gallagher, Peirce Baehr, Bariai Grammar Sketch (2005)

tol

1. third-person singular present indicative form of toldre
2. second-person singular imperative form of toldre

• IPA^(key): /tɔl/

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• Hyphenation: tol
• Rhymes: -ɔl

From Middle Dutch tol (“twig”), related to telg.

tol m (plural tollen, diminutive tolletje n)

1. top, spinning top (a toy)

• Afrikaans: tol

From Middle Dutch tol, from Old Dutch tol, from Latin telōneum (“custom house”).

tol m (plural tollen)

1. toll, customs (money)

• tolheffing
• tollenaar
• tolweg
• zijn tol eisen

• Afrikaans: tol
• → Indonesian: tol

• lot

From Old Norse þol.

• IPA^(key): /tʰoːl/

tol n (genitive singular tols, uncountable)

1. patience

• ótol

• lot

• atol

From Proto-Celtic *tullon, *tullos (“hole”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (“to push, hit”). Compare Spanish tollo (“hole”), Welsh twll, Breton toull, Irish toll.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔl/

tol f (plural toles)

1. ditch used for watering a field
2. dam

• atolar
• tola

• “tol” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “tol” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “tol” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Of unknown origin.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈtol]

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tol

1. (transitive) to push

   Synonyms: nyom, lök, taszít

• tolakodik
• tolakszik
• tolat
• tolódik
• tolonc
• tolong
• tolul

(With verbal prefixes):

From Dutch tol (“toll”).

• IPA^(key): /tol/
• Hyphenation: tol

tol

1. toll
2. toll road
3. toll gate

• “tol” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

tol

1. until

From Old English toll.

tol

1. Alternative form of toll (“toll”)

From Old English tōl.

tol

1. Alternative form of tool (“tool”)

From Old High German tal, from Proto-Germanic *dalą.

• IPA^(key): /toːl/

tol n (plural telder)

1. valley (elongated depression between hills or mountains)

• Anthony R. Rowley, Liacht as de sproch: Grammatica della lingua mòchena Deutsch-Fersentalerisch, TEMI, 2003.

tol

1. imperative of tola and tole

From Proto-Germanic *tōlą, from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- (“to tie to; secure”).

tōl n

1. tool, implement, instrument

• Middle English: tool, tole, tol, toole
  • English: tool
  • Scots: tuil

From *dulaz, whence also Old English dol.

tol

1. foolish