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Definition of Tollbooth
1. Noun. A booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls.
Generic synonyms: Booth, Cubicle, Kiosk, Stall
Group relationships: Toll Plaza
Definition of Tollbooth
1. n. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.
2. v. t. To imprison in a tollbooth.
Definition of Tollbooth
1. Noun. Alternative spelling of toll booth. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tollbooth
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tollbooth
Literary usage of Tollbooth
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memorials of Old Whitby: Or, Historical Gleanings from Ancient Whitby Records by John Christopher Atkinson (1894)
"588, Dr. Young remarks that " it does not sufficiently appear where the Whitby
courts were held prior to the erection of the tollbooth"—that is, ..."
2. Memorials of Old Whitby; Or, Historical Gleanings from Ancient Whitby Records by John Christopher Atkinson (1894)
"THE tollbooth OF OLD WHITBY AND ITS TRUE CHARACTER OCCUPIED as we were in the
... The tollbooth, as its name imports, was intended among other uses as a ..."
3. Gleanings Among the Castles and Convents of Norfolk by Henry Harrod (1857)
"profits of the tollbooth and of the water and port of Lynn, and to lease these
profits for twenty years to them, and to seal divers writings concerning the ..."
4. A Concise Law Dictionary by Herbert Newman Mozley, George Crispe Whiteley (1876)
"Dr. Jamieson conjectures that the word tollbooth, originally signifying a place
... The tollbooth of Edinburgh was built by the citizens in the year 15(51, ..."
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