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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



... Miss Wren was alone at her work, with the house-door set open for coolness, and was trolling in a small sweet voice a mournful little song which might have been the song of the doll she was dressing, bemoaning the brittleness and meltability of wax, when whom should she descry standing on the pavement, looking in ...
— Our Mutual Friend • Charles Dickens



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