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tolbooth

or toll·booth

[ tohl-booth, -booth ]

noun

, Chiefly Scot.
, plural tol·booths [tohl, -boo, th, z, -booths].
  1. a town jail.
  2. a town hall or guild hall, especially a place where tolls are paid.


tolbooth

/ -ˌbuːð; ˈtɒl-; ˈtəʊlˌbuːθ /

noun

  1. a town hall
  2. a variant spelling of tollbooth
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of tolbooth1

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; tollbooth
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Example Sentences

Up till 1810 the town council met in a hall adjoining the old tolbooth.

On Saturday, the 12th of April 1567, a Justiciary Court was held in the tolbooth of Edinburgh, for the trial of the Earl of Bothwell.

On reaching Edinburgh, I was placed in the tolbooth, where many other sufferers for the cause of the Gospel were then lying.

I answered, That lies not yet in your power: so they caused quickly to take me away, and put me in the iron-house tolbooth.

He remembered that Diana Vernon had left the library and immediately returned with the letter which was afterwards claimed by Rob Roy in the tolbooth of Glasgow.

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