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Tollhouse

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Noun
  1. 1
    A building where a toll is collected on a toll road.

    "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."

  2. 2
    a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls wordnet

Etymology

From toll + house. In previous centuries it was common for the toll collector to live in the tollhouse, his housing counting as part of his compensation.

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