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  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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