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tollbooth |
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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