TROLL

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).

To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn. To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye. Milton.

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.

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.

To fish in; to seek to catch fish from. With patient angle trolls the finny deep. Goldsmith.

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

To move rapidly; to wag. F. Beaumont.

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. Bancroft.

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

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.

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.