'Tollbooth' definitions:
Definition of 'tollbooth'
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Definition of 'Tollbooth'
From: GCIDE
- Tollbooth \Toll"booth`\, n. [Toll a tax + booth.] [Written also tolbooth.]
- 1. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. --Wyclif (Mark ii. 14). [1913 Webster]
- 2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tollbooth'
From: GCIDE
- Tollbooth \Toll"booth`\, v. t. To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- That they might tollbooth Oxford men. --Bp. Corbet. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tollbooth'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bastille,
- black hole,
- booth,
- borstal,
- borstal institution,
- bridewell,
- brig,
- cell,
- concentration camp,
- condemned cell,
- crib,
- death cell,
- death house,
- death row,
- detention camp,
- federal prison,
- forced-labor camp,
- gaol,
- gatehouse,
- guardhouse,
- house of correction,
- house of detention,
- hut,
- hutch,
- industrial school,
- internment camp,
- jail,
- jailhouse,
- keep,
- kiosk,
- labor camp,
- lean-to,
- lockup,
- maximum-security prison,
- minimum-security prison,
- Nissen hut,
- oubliette,
- outbuilding,
- outhouse,
- pavilion,
- pen,
- penal colony,
- penal institution,
- penal settlement,
- penitentiary,
- POW camp,
- prison,
- prison camp,
- prisonhouse,
- Quonset hut,
- reform school,
- reformatory,
- sentry box,
- shack,
- shanty,
- shed,
- sponging house,
- stall,
- state prison,
- stockade,
- the hole,
- tollhouse,
- training school