toll·booth /ˈtolˌbuθ/
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Toll·booth n.
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.
Toll·booth, v. t. To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.]
That they might tollbooth Oxford men. --Bp. Corbet.
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tollbooth
n : a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects
tolls [syn: tolbooth, tollhouse]