Troll /(?)/

Troll

n.
  1. 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. (Scand. Myth.)

Phrases & Compounds

Troll flower
Same as Globeflower (a).

Troll

v. t.

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

  1. To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.
    To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.
  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.
  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 ?
    His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd, By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled 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.

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.
  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.

Troll

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. A trolley.

Phrases & Compounds

Troll plate
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.