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.
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Toll"booth`, v. t.
To imprison in a tollbooth.
[R.]
That they might tollbooth Oxford men.
Bp. Corbet.
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