tolt

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noun

A writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a county court.

“I done tolt you for the last time.”

OriginLatin tolta →
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Meanings

tolt1

nountolt (plural tolts)

plural tolts

  1. UKobsoletelawA writ by which a cause pending in a court baron was removed into a county court.

    ... for a plea pending in a seignorial court could be removed into the county court by a procedure called tolt, and from the county into the common pleas by a writ of pone.

    1956, Theodore Plucknett, A Concise History of the Common Law, Butterworth & Co, page 104

tolt2

nountolt (plural tolts)

plural tolts

  1. alternativeAlternative form of tölt.
verbtolt (third-person singular simple present tolts, present participle tolting, simple past and past participle tolted)

present singular third person tolts · participle present tolting · participle past tolted · past tolted

  1. alternativeAlternative form of tölt.

tolt3

verb
  1. participlepastAfrican-American Vernacularsimple past and past participle of tell

    I done tolt you for the last time.

Origin

  1. Latintolta
  2. Englishtolt

From Latin tolta, from tollere (“to take away”).

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Anagrams

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APA

tolt. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tolt

MLA

“tolt.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tolt. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tolt,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tolt.

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