3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tollbooth \Toll"booth`\, v. t.
To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.]
That they might tollbooth Oxford men. --Bp. Corbet.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tollbooth \Toll"booth`\, n. [Toll a tax + booth.] [Written also
tolbooth.]
1. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or
toll. [Obs.]
He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. --Wyclif
(Mark ii 14).
2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence any prison, especially a
town jail. --Sir W. Scott.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tollbooth
n : a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects
tolls [syn: {tolbooth}, {tollhouse}]
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