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 (?), n. [Icel. troll. Cf.
Droll, Trull.] (Scand. Myth.) 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 (?), v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Trolled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Trolling.] [OE. trollen to roll, F. trĂ´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.] 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, 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.