tollbooth, tolbooth, tollhouse
(noun) a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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
9 May 2025
(noun) anything in accord with principles of justice; “he feels he is in the right”; “the rightfulness of his claim”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
