tollhouse

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Etymology

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From toll +‎ house.

Noun

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tollhouse (plural tollhouses)

  1. A building where a toll is collected on a toll road.
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      At the tollhouse the road turns inland to Gledsmuir, and he who goes to the Sker Bay must leave it and cross the wild land called the Whinny Knowes, a place rough with bracken and foxes' holes and old stone cairns.

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