TROLL
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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.
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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. tr&ô;ler, 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.
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To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.
Milton.
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2. To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
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Then doth she troll to the bowl.
Gammer Gurton's Needle.
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Troll the brown bowl.
Sir W. Scott.
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3. To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.
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Will you troll the catch ?
Shak.
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His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd,
By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud.
Hudibras.
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4. To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
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5. To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.
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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.
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2. To move rapidly; to wag. F. Beaumont.
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3. To take part in trolling a song.
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4. To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.
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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.
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2. A song the parts of which are sung in succession; a catch; a round.
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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.
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3. A trolley.
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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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