doll

noun

1. A small figure resembling a human being that is used as a toy.

   “"A thousand dollars are money, my father used to say when he drove fat oxen to market," replied John Wilde, in a mocking tone; "but it will not leave my hands for that shabby price; and, for my own part, it may ornament the foot of my daughter's doll."”

2. (slang)An attractive young woman.

   “Some fine day we may have the country raised, and the gendarmes down upon us from Strasburg, and all owing to your pretty doll, with her cunning ways of coming over you.”

3. (slang)An attractive young woman.
4. (slang)An attractive young woman.
5. (Australia, Scotland, US, dated)A term of endearment

   “Heading home from a party, two hipsters, completely stoned, pause to snuggle on a park bench. A fire engine roars by, bells clanging, sirens screaming. The boy flips. “Solid, doll,” he murmurs, “they’re playing our song!””

   “"They didn't sell cigarettes where you were, doll?" Palmer asked.”

6. (US)A good-natured, cooperative or helpful person.

   “Won't you be a doll and fetch me a glass of water?”

   “Ow! These things are defective. Pipsqueak, be a doll, I need a new pair, pronto!”

7. The smallest or pet pig in a litter.
8. A short signal post mounted on a bracket mounted on the main signal post, or on a signal gantry.

   “The signals are on a three-doll bracket post; one doll carries two [signal] arms, one above the other.”

9. (slang)A barbiturate or amphetamine pill.

   “Each night she looked at the bottle of Seconals with affection. She never could do this without the dolls. She would have spent sleepless nights, smoking, worrying—and she would have lost her nerve.”

10. A temporary barrier used in horse racing.

    “On a beautiful spring morning, after the “dolls and chains” had been removed to allow the horses room to pass through, in galloping “across the flat,” […]”

11. (US, obsolete)Synonym of dollar.
12. (alt-of, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete form of dal.

verb

1. Synonym of doll up.
2. (UK, transitive)To place a barrier in front of (a section of the course that is to be omitted from a horse race).
3. (obsolete, transitive)To warm moderately; to make tepid; to mull.

name

1. A township and rural village in Sutherland, Highland council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NC8803).
2. A diminutive of the female given name Dorothy.

   “O! run, Doll, run; run, good Doll.”

3. A surname.