Toll

Toll, an old term for a tax in general, but restricted in later times to the payment exacted in return for a privilege, Market-tolls, raised by the owners of the land, were formerly common, but the only tolls known in recent times have been those collected on roads and other accommodations for transport. Toll-bars on roads were finally abolished in England in 1889, but the system is still maintained on piers, and to some extent on bridges also.