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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.]

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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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Source: gcide
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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