Crossword clues for trolled
trolled
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Troll \Troll\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trolled; p. pr. & vb. n. Trolling.] [OE. trollen to roll, F. tr[^o]ler, 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.]
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To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.
To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye.
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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.
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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. To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
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To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.
With patient angle trolls the finny deep.
--Goldsmith.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: troll)
Usage examples of "trolled".
Rainwater, collected in cisterns somewhere above ground, exited here in con trolled, narrow streams from spouts along the wall.
Grown around a manikin form over the course of years and under painstakingly con trolled conditions.
You're triggering responses in the most con trolled of us--not to mention that poor witless tel empath we had to tranquilize.
And her mind, less con trolled than usual in its weariness, had attracted his.
As Gogstad expanded it ran into established players, the companies and municipalities that con trolled the water in other countries.
Sondra knew she could get every boring detail of the boring tradition if she asked the right person, or if she trolled through the right datastore, but there wasn’t any point.