TOLLBOOTH

tollbooth. Tollbooth, n. a market or town house, prison, jail

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Toll″booth′ (?), n. [[Toll a tax + booth.]] [[Written also tolbooth.]] 1. 1. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.
He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif (Mark ii. 14). 2. 2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. Sir W. Scott.