tollbooth

4 definitions found

tollbooth - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tollbooth \Toll"booth`\, n. [Toll a tax + booth.] [Written also
     tolbooth.]
     1. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or
        toll. [Obs.]
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              He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. --Wyclif
                                                    (Mark ii. 14).
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     2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a
        town jail. --Sir W. Scott.
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  Tollbooth \Toll"booth`\, v. t.
     To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.]
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           That they might tollbooth Oxford men.    --Bp. Corbet.
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tollbooth - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tollbooth
      n 1: a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects
           tolls [syn: tollbooth, tolbooth, tollhouse]

tollbooth - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  63 Moby Thesaurus words for "tollbooth":
     Nissen hut, POW camp, Quonset hut, bastille, black hole, booth,
     borstal, borstal institution, bridewell, brig, cell,
     concentration camp, condemned cell, crib, death cell, death house,
     death row, detention camp, federal prison, forced-labor camp, gaol,
     gatehouse, guardhouse, house of correction, house of detention,
     hut, hutch, industrial school, internment camp, jail, jailhouse,
     keep, kiosk, labor camp, lean-to, lockup, maximum-security prison,
     minimum-security prison, oubliette, outbuilding, outhouse,
     pavilion, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement,
     penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school,
     reformatory, sentry box, shack, shanty, shed, sponging house,
     stall, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollhouse,
     training school