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Tollhouse

Tollhouse \Toll"house`\, n.; pl. Tollhouses. A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.

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tollhouse

n. A building where a toll is collected on a toll road.

WordNet
tollhouse

n. a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls [syn: tollbooth, tolbooth]

Usage examples of "tollhouse".

Jahl had hoped to rescue his friend from the Tollhouse, but it was worse than that now.

He had until noon to make it to the Tollhouse, and the sky above promised a favorable day.

Del Lotts waited in his closet-sized cell, staring out through the iron bars of the Tollhouse at the crowd gathering below.

They had arrested Del and dragged him away in manacles and they had thrown him into the Tollhouse, refusing to let him see a single friend.

The three of them were already approaching the Tollhouse, hopefully going unnoticed by the hundreds of people.

She passed the old Tollhouse at the junction of Sparepenny Lane with the road leading to the ford, and turned down a lane leading to a row of charming cottages.

And standing by the arch, talking with the soldiers by the tollhouse, was Robert de Kere.

French and the English alike just by making those wonderful Tollhouse cookies Iain had gobbled up by the handfuls.

The caravan master rode up to the tollhouse, identified himself, and paid the fee.

Centered on the nearest countertop was a piece of paper, and beside that a plate of home-baked Tollhouse cookies covered with clingwrap.

By the red and yellow board opposite the tollhouse he paused for a moment or two in the sunshine, as if to rehearse the speech with which he meant to open his business.

Behind the door stood Alanna Brunswick, wife of Mission Commander Gordon Brunswick, in a Star Trek T-shirt and holding a platter of Tollhouse cookies, smiling like a perfume counter saleswoman.

During the last days of April,[5] the clerks at the tollhouses note the entrance of "a frightful number of poorly clad men of sinister aspect.