tollbooth Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls
    tolbooth; tollhouse.

WordNet

Toll"booth` noun
Etymology
Toll a tax + booth.
Written also tolbooth.
Definitions
  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` transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To imprison in a tollbooth. R.
    That they might tollbooth Oxford men. Bp. Corbet.

Webster 1913