Define Tollbooth using "exact" search strategy.
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| Source: gcide | 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.] [1913 Webster]
He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. --Wyclif (Mark ii. 14). [1913 Webster]
2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
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| Source: gcide | Tollbooth \Toll"booth`\, v. t. To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.] [1913 Webster]
That they might tollbooth Oxford men. --Bp. Corbet. [1913 Webster]
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