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Tollbooth   /tˈoʊlbˌuθ/   Listen
noun
Tollbooth  n.  
1.
A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. (Obs.) "He saw Levy... sitting at the tollbooth."
2.
In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail.


verb
Tollbooth  v. t.  To imprison in a tollbooth. (R.) "That they might tollbooth Oxford men."





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"Tollbooth" Quotes from Famous Books



... lived at no great distance from the place of encounter. Here he was seized and removed to Edinburgh, where, after being paraded through the streets bound and bare-headed, and conducted by the common hangman, he was lodged in the tollbooth on July 3rd, 1685, there to await his trial as a traitor. The day of trial came, and he was condemned to death, in spite of the most strenuous exertions of his aged father, ...
— Fifty-Two Stories For Girls • Various


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