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Where you queue to pay also involving lines taking hours
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tollbooth
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c., originally a tax collector's booth, from toll (n.) + booth .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tollbooth \Toll"booth`\, n. [Toll a tax + booth.] [Written also tolbooth.] A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.] He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. --Wyclif (Mark ii. 14). In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls [syn: tolbooth , tollhouse ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Tollbooth or tolbooth may refer to: Tolbooth , a traditional Scottish 'town hall' for the administration of burghs, usually providing a council meeting chamber, a court house and a jail Toll house , a building where a toll collector historically lived and ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of toll booth English)
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ The causeway near the mill, crossing the creek, is a toll bridge, with tollbooth intact.
Usage examples of tollbooth.
At Rockfish Gap there is a tollbooth manned by rangers where motorists have to pay an entrance fee and thru-hikers have to acquire a backcountry hiking permit.
On this side, facing the street, the building had tollbooths on each corner for parking-lot customers and one window in the middle of the street-side wall, where there was apparently some kind of office.
Grumbling to himself, he strolled slowly off in the direction of the other tollbooths, holding the banknote out in front of him, as if it was covered in plague bacteria.
Just about three months ago he and ten of his sicarios had ambushed the youngest of the Orola brothers at the El Cerrito tollbooth.
The neat line of tollbooths guarding the access had been turned into vacant-eyed skeletons of smashed Pola-Glas.