Tollbooth
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
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He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. --Wyclif
(Mark ii. 14).
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2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a
town jail. --Sir W. Scott.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "tollbooth":
Nissen hut, POW camp, Quonset hut, 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, oubliette, outbuilding, outhouse,
pavilion, pen, penal colony, penal institution, penal settlement,
penitentiary, prison, prison camp, prisonhouse, reform school,
reformatory, sentry box, shack, shanty, shed, sponging house,
stall, state prison, stockade, the hole, tollhouse,
training school
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