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English
Etymology
From toll + dish.
Noun
tolldish (plural tolldishes)
- A vessel for measuring the toll of corn for grinding.
1793, John Comyns, A Digest of the Laws of England, volume 5:So a mill; for one shall have it for so long a time, or one toll-dish, the other for a like time afterwards, or the second toll-dish.
1853, John Calvert, The Gold Rocks of Great Britain and Ireland: And a General Outline of the Gold Regions of the World, with a Treatise on the Geology of Gold:Derbyshire and other places prescribes to take lead of mines sterile, which is without gold or silver, without paying anything except coplot and tolldish, which privilege, 10th Elizabeth, was granted for ever to the Society of London for the Mineral and Battery Works, and they only, to employ, govern, and pay the miners and workmen in all mineral affairs, prout grant.
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