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(), n.[Toll a tax + booth.] [Written also tolbooth.] 1. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.] He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif (Mark ii. 14). 2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. Sir W. Scott. Toll"booth° v. t.To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.] That they might tollbooth Oxford men. Bp. Corbet. スポンサード リンク
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