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Trolling   /trˈoʊlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Troll  v. t.  (past & past part. trolled; pres. part. trolling)  
1.
To move circularly or volubly; to roll; to turn. "To dress and troll the tongue, and roll the eye."
2.
To send about; to circulate, as a vessel in drinking. "Then doth she troll to the bowl." "Troll the brown bowl."
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?" "His sonnets charmed the attentive crowd, By wide-mouthed mortaltrolled aloud."
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."


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.
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."





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"Trolling" Quotes from Famous Books



... the tune, "Money Musk" was the dance; and it was a preposterously bad fit. The figure was tangled up like a fishing-line after trolling all day without a swivel. The dancers were doing their best, determined to be happy, as cheerful as possible, but all out of time. The organ was whirring and gasping ...
— The Ruling Passion • Henry van Dyke
... factory chimneys of Birmingham. On still; down the wide open roadway of Deritend; past the many-gabled "Old Crown House;" through the only really picturesque street in Birmingham—Digbeth; up the Bull Ring, the guard merrily trolling out upon his bugle, "See the Conquering Hero Comes;" round the corner into New Street where we pull up—the horses covered with foam—at the doors of "The Swan." Our journey has taken us ...
— Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men • E. Edwards
... musicians blowing upon horns such as they use for signal calls, and trumpeting on trumpets, made of raw oxhide, tunes and airs, like the music of the double-octave harp (5). Seuthes himself got up and shouted, trolling forth a war song; then he sprang from his place and leapt about as though he would guard himself against a missile, in right nimble style. Then came in a set of clowns ...
— Anabasis • Xenophon
... it for the time being in his fist while he did the drinking and making water jobs and found it a bit sour after the liquid fire in question. Anyhow in he rolled after his successful libation-cum-potation, introducing an atmosphere of drink into the soiree, boisterously trolling, like a veritable son of ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
... his brain. But the smiles and the brightness all faded away as she said good-night. She toiled wearily up the stairs, pale, tired, spiritless, half her youth and beauty gone. Farther down the passage she could hear Charley's mellow voice trolling carelessly a song: ...
— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming


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