tollman

American  

[tohl-muhn] / ˈtoʊl mən /

noun

• tollmen
  plural

1. a tollkeeper.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• tollmen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of tollman

First recorded in 1735–45; toll ¹ + -man

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

tollman tollmen

I’ll read you just a few of the leaders I wrote at that time upon the Buff job of appointing a new tollman to the turnpike here. 

From Pickwickian Studies by Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald

The tollman would swing out this shoe over the boat that was passing through, as a boy would swing his hook and sinker out over the water if he were going to catch fish.

From Rollo in Holland by Jacob Abbott

"Where do you wish to go?" said the tollman.

From Rollo in London by Jacob Abbott

“No one but Dick, the tollman, could have thrown that against the door!” said a little man who seemed a person of authority.

From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher

Death saw a tollman taking a toll,   In the spirit of his fraternity; But he knew that sort of man would extort,   Though summoned to all eternity.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton

And now the turnpike gates again flew open in short space; The tollmen thinking, as before, that Gilpin rode a race.

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells

And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space; The tollmen thinking as before That Gilpin rode a race.

From English Songs and Ballads by T. W. H. (Thomas William Hodgson) Crosland