tolbooth
or toll·booth
[tohl-booth, -booth]
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noun, plural tol·booths [tohl-booth z, -booths] /ˈtoʊlˌbuðz, -ˌbuθs/. Chiefly Scot.
a town jail.
a town hall or guild hall, especially a place where tolls are paid.
Origin of tolbooth
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It cannot be the person you desired for the furnishing of our tolbooth the other day, Sim?
Doom CastleNeil Munro
However, he got Archer and five small children to Kirkaldy tolbooth.
Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies)John Howie
She was shut up in the Tolbooth for singing Jacobite songs in the Canongate.
The Story of My Life, volumes 4-6Augustus J. C. Hare
That tumult was now transferred from the inside to the outside of the Tolbooth.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Vol. 1., IllustratedSir Walter Scott
So waiting the arrival and the day of my doom, I continued to abide in the Tolbooth.
The Men of the Moss-HagsS. R. Crockett
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