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Tollbooth
Toll′boothˊ
,Noun.
[
Toll
a tax + booth
.] [Written also
tolbooth
.] 1.
A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.
[Obs.]
He saw Levy . . . sitting at the
tollbooth
. Wyclif (Mark ii. 14).
2.
In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail.
Sir W. Scott.
Toll′boothˊ
,Verb.
T.
To imprison in a tollbooth.
[R.]
That they might
tollbooth
Oxford men. Bp. Corbet.