To carry, to take, to lead.
1835. When I reached the creek, I inquired of a bystander…. what they were toling that plunder for.—Boston Pearl, Sept. 26.
1839. See SOUSE.
1850. The stout little curmudgeon of a Governor [has been] drugged with dinners, and Mademoiselle tolled out to town balls.—D. G. Mitchell, ‘The Lorgnette,’ i. 51 (1852).
1854. Look a-here, Kurnel, you can sock along arter that b’ar jist as long as you ’ve a mind tu, and here ’s my six-shooter, but you can’t toll me up thar, nohow!—Knick. Mag., xliii. 643 (June).
1856. I shall toll all these fellows down to Muggins’s, and leave them so drunk they cannot stand for one three hours.—H. B. Stowe, ‘Dred,’ ch. 55.
1867. We saw plenty of ducks, but as we had no skiff, and no means to tole them on, we did not get a shot.—Baltimore American, n.d. (de Vere).
