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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Troll v. t. [imp. & p. p. Trolled p. pr. & vb. n. Trolling.]
 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.