toll, tole

Toll or toll means a fee or tax paid to use a bridge or highway, or some other service --
There is a $2 toll to cross the new bridge.
Did you remember to bring change for the toll?

Toll is also the sound a large or low-pitched bell makes--
"...therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee."
He was startled when he heard the bell toll.

Tole or tole ( rhymes with toll ) means a kind of folk-painting on metal objects--
She took a night-school class in tole painting.
They like to look in antique shops for old tole painted items.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"She spent $5 for the tole ware box, and another $5 for the highway toll ."

Note--"tolled" is the past tense ( yesterday, or some time ago ) of "toll"--
The bell tolled each time there was a funeral.
Not to be confused with "told" ( rhymes with tolled ), the past tense of "tell", meaning to recount or state plainly--
She told him, but he wouldn't listen.
Note # 2--"toll" may mean a measure or count of the extent of damages or injury--
The highway death toll was higher than the toll for last year's holiday weekend.