Toll"booth` (?), 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.
Toll"booth` (?), 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.
