Troll (?), 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.

Troll flower. Bot. Same as Globeflower (a).

 

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Troll (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Trolling.] [OE. trollen to roll, F. troler, 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.

To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.
Milton.

2.

To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.

Then doth she troll to the bowl.
Gammer Gurton's Needle.

Troll the brown bowl.
Sir W. Scott.

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 ?
Shak.

His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd,
By wide-mouthed mortal trolled aloud.
Hudibras.

4.

To angle for with a trolling line, or with a hook 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.
Goldsmith.

 

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Troll, v. i.

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.
Bancroft.

 

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Troll, n.

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.
Prof. Wilson.

3.

A trolley.

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.

 

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