Troll: Definition and part of speech

Troll

  1. n. 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.
  2. v. t. To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.
  3. v. t. To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking.
  4. v. t. To sing the parts of in succession, as of a round, a catch, and the like; also, to sing loudly or freely.
  5. v. t. To angle for with a trolling line, or with a book drawn along the surface of the water; hence, to allure.
  6. v. t. To fish in; to seek to catch fish from.
  7. v. i. To roll; to run about; to move around; as, to troll in a coach and six.
  8. v. i. To move rapidly; to wag.
  9. v. i. To take part in trolling a song.
  10. v. i. To fish with a rod whose line runs on a reel; also, to fish by drawing the hook through the water.
  11. 1n. 1 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.
  12. 1v. t. 1 To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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