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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Toll \Toll\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Tolled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Tolling}.] To sound or ring, as a bell, with strokes uniformly repeated at intervals, as at funerals, or in calling assemblies, or to announce the death of a person.
The country cocks do crow, the clocks do toll. --Shak.
Now sink in sorrows with a tolling bell. --Pope.
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