Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A house adjoining a tollgate and occupied by a toll collector.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
tollbooth . - noun A house placed on or beside a road near a toll-gate, or at the end of a toll-bridge, where the toll-taker is stationed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house occupied by a receiver of tolls.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
building where atoll is collected on atoll road .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a booth at a tollgate where the toll collector collects tolls
Etymologies
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Examples
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Beyond the tollhouse was a long, narrow road winding north and west through the forest and out to the main north–south trade route.
Burning Tower Larry Niven 2005
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Beyond the tollhouse was a long, narrow road winding north and west through the forest and out to the main north–south trade route.
Burning Tower Larry Niven 2005
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Back of the tollhouse was a neatly fenced garden, well filled with old-fashioned flowers; and, still farther on, a good-sized house, from which a box-bordered path led through the garden to the tollhouse.
The Captain's Toll-Gate Frank Richard Stockton 1868
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Some bites taste like a tollhouse chocolate chip cookie.
Kitchen Sink Cookies 2008
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Some bites taste like a tollhouse chocolate chip cookie.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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At lunch, they ate peanut butter sandwiches and tollhouse cookies at the outdoor tables with the pigeons and the gulls and the big kids.
Trust Walk Kimberly Ford 2010
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Clemens spent most of his time at the opening session observing a particularly ill-bred Washoe delegate, “Colonel” Jonathan Williams, eating an eighteen-pound raw turnip at his desk while simultaneously ushering through committee a sinuous new bill for a toll road that stretched conveniently from one tollhouse to another.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Private investors stepped in to fill the gap, building railroads and turnpikes—so called because travelers had to pay tollhouse attendants to turn pikes that blocked free passage.
Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010
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She'd sent him a shoebox of tollhouse cookies and he'd never said thanks.
Have You Seen Me? 2010
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Clemens spent most of his time at the opening session observing a particularly ill-bred Washoe delegate, “Colonel” Jonathan Williams, eating an eighteen-pound raw turnip at his desk while simultaneously ushering through committee a sinuous new bill for a toll road that stretched conveniently from one tollhouse to another.
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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