Definition of Tollbooth

1. Noun. A booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls.

Exact synonyms: Tolbooth, Tollhouse
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

toll call
toll calls
toll collector
toll line
toll lines
toll plaza
toll plazas
toll road
toll roads
toll taker
tollable
tollage
tollages
tollbar
tollbars
tollbooth (current term)
tollbooths
tolldish
tolled
toller
tollers
tollfree
tollgate
tollgates
tollgatherer
tollhouse
tollhouses
tollie
tollies
tolling

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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