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• toller
  toller

  noun

  a person or thing that tolls.
• Toller
  Toller

  noun

  Ernst 1893–1939, German dramatist.

toller

¹ American  

[toh-ler] / ˈtoʊ lər /

noun

1. a person or thing that tolls.

2. Also called tolling dog.  a small dog trained to entice ducks into shooting range or a trap.

3. a person who tolls a bell.

4. a bell used for tolling; a tolling bell.

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toller ² American  

[toh-ler] / ˈtoʊ lər /

noun

1. a toll collector.

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Toller ³ American  

[taw-ler, tol-er, taw-luhr] / ˈtɔ lər, ˈtɒl ər, ˈtɔ lər /

noun

1. Ernst 1893–1939, German dramatist.

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Toller British  

/ ˈtɔlər /

noun

1. Ernst (ɛrnst). 1893–1939, German dramatist and revolutionary, noted particularly for his expressionist plays, esp Masse Mensch (1921)

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Etymology

Origin of toller¹

1400–50; Middle English: one who lures. See toll ², -er ¹

Origin of toller²

before 1000; Middle English; Old English tollere. See toll ¹, -er ¹

Example Sentences

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But in their own territory, people turn to stare at a hunter who works with any other dog than a toller.

From Time Magazine Archive

I didn't have no call to toller, and he knowed how to run, I reckon.

From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington

"It's easy sayin', 'Run the toller off,' Mo; but who's to do it with such a little flame?"

From When Ghost Meets Ghost by William Frend De Morgan

Yet with all his mock-heroic notoriety, the toller Pückler was by no means destitute of those practical qualities which tempered the Teutonic Romanticism, even in its earliest and most extravagant developments.

From Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century by George Paston

I could get a toller cask down out of a van.

From The Golden Magnet by George Manville Fenn

American Kennel Club lists the Toller as the U.S.’s 87th most popular dog.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2025

“From the beginning,” said the lawyer, Maxim Toller.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2023

Tarabella's lawyer Maxim Toller said his client was in favour of being stripped of his immunity.

From Reuters ● Jan. 2, 2023

“Ya, seems like it’s him,” Toller told Vice.

From The Verge ● Oct. 27, 2021

And I know, of course, that Dr. Toller is a most distinguished leader of religious thought—everybody knows that.

From Peter Binney A Novel by Archibald Marshall