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Definition of Toll line
1. Noun. A telephone line for long-distance calls.
Definition of Toll line
1. Noun. A landline, especially one between telephone exchanges ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Toll Line
Literary usage of Toll line
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1919)
"The distant exchange then dials the number of the toll line desired. ...
The distant exchange may ring on the toll line, cause the line signal to show on ..."
2. Telephones and Telegraphs: 1902: And Municipal Electric Fire Alarm and by United States Bureau of the Census, William Mott Steuart, Thomas Commerford Martin, Arthur Vaughan Abbott, William Mayer, jr (1906)
"toll line switchboards.—A toll line switchboard does not differ ... The recording
operator then passes the ticket to the proper toll line operator, ..."
3. Telephony: A Manual of the Design, Construction, and Operation of Telephone by Arthur Vaughan Abbott (1905)
"At the toll board the toll line ends in a drop, the shutter being so wired ...
A switching key H is provided which, when thrown, connects the toll line with ..."
4. American Telephone Practice by Kempster Blanchard Miller (1905)
"When a toll subscriber desires to converse with a multiple board subscriber the
toll line operator will be signaled in the regular manner by the falling of ..."
5. Automatic Telephony: A Comprehensive Treatise on Automatic and Semi by Arthur Bessey Smith, Wilson Lee Campbell (1921)
"Three different arrangements are used for enabling toll line operators to complete
connections to local lines: 1. A calling device and a trunk like a ..."
6. Telephony by William Charles Boyrer, Kempster Blanchard Miller, Archie Frederick Collins, Samuel G. McMeen, H. S. Durant (1905)
"If not she must go back on the circuit and order the connection cleared. Bhe then
rings on the toll line and when the operator at the distant point answers ..."
7. Modern Engineering Practice: A Reference Library by American School (Chicago, Ill.) (1906)
"She then rings on the toll line and when the operator at the distant point answers,
orders the connection cleared. From the foregoing it will'be evident ..."
8. Public Utilities Reports by Henry Clifford Spurr, Ellsworth Nichols, Public Utilities Reports, inc (1916)
"A local subscriber seeking to talk over the toll line is principally interested
in prompt and efficient service, and as a general proposition does not care ..."
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