There are more than 50 countries that export coffee. They are near the equator, where the climate is conducive to producing coffee beans.
TOLLBOOTH
tollbooth, tolbooth, tollhouse
(noun) a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
tollbooth (plural tollbooths)
(Scotland) (In this sense usually spelt tolbooth) The traditional municipal building of a Scottish town or burgh, usually including a meeting-hall, court, prison and (eponymically) a place for the receipt of taxes, duties and fines.
Alternative spelling of toll booth
Source: Wiktionary
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.
Toll"booth`, v. t.
Definition: To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.] That they might tollbooth Oxford men. Bp. Corbet.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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