Tollbooth

Definition of Tollbooth

Toll´booth`
n.1.A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.
He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth.
- Wyclif (Mark ii. 14).
2.In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail.
v. t.1.To imprison in a tollbooth.
That they might tollbooth Oxford men.
- Bp. Corbet.

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