Troll

Definition of Troll

n.

1.

(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
a -	(Bot.) Same as Globeflower (a).

v. t.

1.

To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.

[imp. & p. p. Trolled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Trolling.]

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 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.

- Goldsmith.

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.

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.

n.

1.

The act of moving round; routine; repetition.

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.

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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