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Definition of Tollbar
1. Noun. A gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid.
Definition of Tollbar
1. Noun. A barrier across a toll road or toll bridge that is lifted when the toll is paid ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tollbar
1. a tollgate [n -S] - See also: tollgate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tollbar
Literary usage of Tollbar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reminiscences of Manchester, and Some of Its Local Surroundings from the by Louis M. Hayes (1905)
"Broughton continued—Bury New Road—Fairy Lane—The Old Toffee Shop—The Little Welsh
Chapel- The Old tollbar, Strangeways. FROM the Grove Inn to Sherbourne ..."
2. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1892)
"His mount was named tollbar, and had a great local reputation; but there were
several well-known public performers opposed to him, so a longish price could ..."
3. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1903)
"... and it continued forward towards Old Trafford in substitution for the old line
of road which is shown to be blocked at Pomona Gardens where the tollbar ..."
4. Visits to fields of battle, in England, of the fifteenth century by Richard Brooke (1857)
"A lane turns off from the turnpike road near the tollbar, towards the river Avon,
by which the defeated forces are said to have fled, and to have attempted ..."
5. The Journal of Jurisprudence by Law Library Microform Consortium (1881)
"... of the tollbar at Lix, on the roads leading from Tyndrum and Lochearnhead to
Killin. He was aged thirty, handsome, and of big stature, hence known as ..."
6. Hunting Tours: Descriptive of Various Fashionable Countries and by Cornelius Tongue (1864)
"... Sutton Wood, Thornhaugh, Wal- cot Park, Water Newton, Elton Furze, and Elton
tollbar; Peterborough station for Castor ..."
7. Twice Around the Clock, Or, The Hours of the Day and Night in London by George Augustus Sala, William McConnell (1862)
"Camberwell Gate: tollbar-keeper, who has been up all night, going to bed, very
cross; tollbar-keeper's wife gets up to mind the ..."
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