Category:Troll

Troll, n. Etym: [icel. troll. Cf. Droll, trull.] (scand. Myth.)

Defn: 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. (bot.) Same as globeflower (a).

Troll Troll, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trolling.] Etym: [oe. trollen to roll, f. trôler, of. troller to drag about, to Ramble; probably of teutonic origin; cf. G. trollen to roll, ramble, Sich trollen to be gone; or perhaps for trotler, fr. F. trotter to Trot (cf. Trot.). Cf. Trawl.]

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

Troll 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. F. Beaumont.

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.

Troll Troll, n.

1. The act of moving round; routine; repetition. Burke.

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. 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.