Troll
Troll , noun
[Icelandic troll. Compare Droll, Trull.]
(Scand. Mythology) A supernatural being, often represented as of diminutive size, but sometimes as a giant, and fabled to inhabit caves, hills, and like places; a witch.
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Troll , transitive verb
[Old English trollen to roll, French trôler, Of. troller to drag about, to ramble; probably of Teutonic origin; compare German trollen to roll, ramble, sich trollen to be gone; or perhaps for trotler, from French trotter to trot (compare Trot.). Compare Trawl.]
1.
To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.
To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.
2.
To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
Then doth she troll to the bowl.
Troll the brown bowl.
3.
To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.
Will you troll the catch?
His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd,
By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud.
4.
To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
5.
To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.
With patient angle trolls the finny deep.
Troll , intransitive verb
1.
To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
2.
To move rapidly; to wag. — F. Beaumont
3.
To take part in trolling a song.
4.
To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.
Their young men... trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish.
Troll , noun
1.
The act of moving round; routine; repetition. — Burke
2.
A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
Thence the catch and troll, while “Laughter, holding both his sides,” sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life.
3.
A trolley.
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Troll plate (Machinery) , a rotative disk with spiral ribs or grooves, by which several pieces, as the jaws of a chuck, can be brought together or spread radially.