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Troll v. i.

To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.

To move rapidly; to wag.

To take part in trolling a song.

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."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Troll" Quotes from Famous Books

... all day by the mast with an iron anchor on his shoulder, alone sufficed to make the malcontents give place. Yet after a little while the singing died. Breath was too precious to waste. It was mockery to troll of "AEolus's winds" whilst the sea was one motionless mirror of gray. The monotonous "beat," "beat" of the keleustes's hammer, and the creaking of the oars in their leathered holes alone broke the stillness that reigned through the length of the trireme. The penteconter and her prize had ...

— A Victor of Salamis • William Stearns Davis

Words linked to "Troll" : talk, angle, Scandinavia, utter, roll, mythical creature, praise, partsong, mythical monster, folklore, troller, trolling, angling, fish lure, circulate, fisherman's lure, mouth, circle, sing