n.
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 ]
Troll plate (Mach.),
n. [ Icel. troll. Cf. Droll, Trull. ] (Scand. Myth.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]
Troll flower. (Bot.)
v. t.
To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Then doth she troll to the bowl. Gammer Gurton's Needle. [ 1913 Webster ]
Troll the brown bowl. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
Will you troll the catch ? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd,
By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]
With patient angle trolls the finny deep. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
Their young men . . . trolled along the brooks that abounded in fish. Bancroft. [ 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 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.
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 ]
n. A kind of loose dress for women. [ Obs. ] Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]