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Someone employed to collect tolls
Answer for the clue "Someone employed to collect tolls ", 7 letters:
tollman
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Word definitions for tollman in dictionaries
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone employed to collect tolls [syn: tollkeeper , tollgatherer , toll collector , toll taker , toll agent , toller ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tollman \Toll"man\, n.; pl. Tollmen . One who receives or collects toll; a toll gatherer. --Cowper.
Usage examples of tollman.
Even so doth the tollman at the well-frequented turn-pike on the Wellbraehead, sitting at his ease in his own dwelling, gather more receipt of custom, than if, moving forth upon the road, he were to require a contribution from each person whom he chanced to meet in his journey, when, according to the vulgar adage, he might possibly be greeted with more kicks than halfpence.
The second, that he was known to have friends in organised places, and if Tollman was carrying organisation money Blisters wasn't going to burn his fingers stealing it, which was how he got his nickname in the first place.
In a country with legalised bookmaking, Marius Tollman might have grown up a respectable law-abiding citizen.