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Definition of Tollgatherer
1. Noun. Someone employed to collect tolls.
Generic synonyms: Employee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tollgatherer
Literary usage of Tollgatherer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Jurist: Containing Reports of Cases Decided in the House of by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, House of Lords, Parliament, Great Britain (1832)
"That if any tollgatherer or Tacks- man of the Tolls on any Turnpike Road ...
in case any tollgatherer or 4i¡f T°"" i Perso» acting as such shall offend ..."
2. The Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801 by Pennsylvania, James Tyndale Mitchell, Henry Flanders, Jonathan Willis Martin, Hampton Lawrence Carson (1911)
"... and if any tollgatherer shall demand and receive toll for a greater distance
than the person of whom such toll is demanded shall have traveled along the ..."
3. Acts of the Legislature of the State of New Jersey by New Jersey (1823)
"... the tollgatherer and the boatman with re- lish'd&c. spect to his lading, ...
the said tollgatherer shall give a certificate thereof to the said ''. ..."
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