Crossword clues for tollbooth
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tollbooth \Toll"booth`\, v. t. To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.]
That they might tollbooth Oxford men.
--Bp. Corbet.
Tollbooth \Toll"booth`\, n. [Toll a tax + booth.] [Written also tolbooth.]
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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 prison, especially a town jail.
--Sir W. Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of toll booth English)
WordNet
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 works
- A place where tolls for road usage are collected on toll roads
- Tollbooth (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
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.