Category:Tollbooth

Toll"booth`, n. Etym: [toll a tax + booth.] Etym: [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.

Tollbooth Toll"booth`, v. t.

Defn: to imprison in a tollbooth. [r.] That they might tollbooth oxford men. Bp. Corbet.