A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.] He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif (Mark ii. 14).
In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. Sir W. Scott.
To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.] That they might tollbooth Oxford men. Bp. Corbet.
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