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v. i. 1. To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move rapidly; to wag. F. Beaumont. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To take part in trolling a song. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of moving round; routine; repetition. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thence the catch and troll, while “Laughter, holding both his sides, ” sheds tears to song and ballad pathetic on the woes of married life. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A trolley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Troll plate (Mach.), 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Trolled p. pr. & vb. n. Trolling. ] [ OE. trollen to roll, F. trôler, Of. troller to drag about, to ramble; probably of Teutonic origin; cf. G. trollen to roll, ramble, sich trollen to be gone; or perhaps for trotler, fr. F. trotter to trot (cf. Trot.). Cf. Trawl. ] 1. To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn. [ 1913 Webster ]

To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then doth she troll to the bowl. Gammer Gurton's Needle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Troll the brown bowl. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will you troll the catch ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd,
By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To fish in; to seek to catch fish from. [ 1913 Webster ]

With patient angle trolls the finny deep. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who trolls. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A motor car powered by electricity drawn from a trolley, and thus constrained to follow the trolley lines. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

Trolley line, (a) A trolley (f). (b) The path along which a trolley car runs. [ PJC ]

. A heavy conducting wire on which the trolley car runs and from which it receives the current. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. trou-madame pigeon holes. ] The game of nineholes. [ Written also trolmydames. ] [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Troll to roll, to stroll; but cf. also Trull. ] A stroller; a loiterer; esp., an idle, untidy woman; a slattern; a slut; a whore. [ 1913 Webster ]