tolbooth
Americannoun
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tolbooths
plural
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a town jail.
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a town hall or guild hall, especially a place where tolls are paid.
noun
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a town hall
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a variant spelling of tollbooth
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of tolbooth
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at tollbooth
Example Sentences
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The market-place has lost its curious old tolbooth, and in its place stands a town hall of good Tudor design.
From Yorkshire by Gordon Home
"I have broken out of the tolbooth o' Irvine," said I, "and I am fleeing here with Mr Witherspoon."
From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by John Galt
In the meantime they are lodged in the tolbooth of that town.
From History of the Mackenzies, with genealogies of the principal families of the name by Alexander Mackenzie
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.
From Life of Mary Queen of Scots, Volume II (of 2) by Henry Glassford Bell
"It cannot be the person you desired for the furnishing of our tolbooth the other day, Sim?" said he.
From Doom Castle by Neil Munro
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