toll-booth

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TOLL-BOOTH, noun [toll and booth.] A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. 1. A prison. TOLL-BOOTH, verb transitive To imprison in a toll-booth
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