toll-housen.
A house or building at which tolls or dues are collected.
1. = tollbooth n. 1 (Obsolete) or 2 (now local).
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > customs house or tollbooth
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dogana1605
douane1656
scale1682
excise-office1698
sayer choky1751
toll-shop1789
toll-office1841
chop-house1882
naka1984
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 496/1 Tolhowse, teloneum.
1511 Pylgrymage Richarde Guylforde (Pynson) f. xxxvi Our sauyour..sawe the publycann named Leui..syttynge at the tolhous.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 281/2 Tolle house, mayson de decrepte.
1889 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 8 213/1 The ‘tolhouse’ or ‘tolbooth’ (as our town halls were called in the Middle Ages). In this place [Great Yarmouth] the name of ‘tolhouse’ is still retained.
2. A house by a toll-gate or toll-bridge, occupied by the toll-taker; †a railway booking-office (obsolete).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house in specific situation > house by toll-bridge or -gate
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toll-house1763
toll-lodge1818
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > duty on goods > imposition or collecting of duties on goods > [noun] > toll-barrier > keeper of > house of
toll-cotec1460
toll-house1763
toll-lodge1818
society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > booking office
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1763 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 91/1 Richard Watson, tollman of Marybone turnpike, was..murdered in his toll-house.
1841 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 4 322/2 The whole rise of the railway from its toll-house in Plymouth to the Prince-town terminus..is 1350 feet.
1906 T. Sinton Poetry of Badenoch 163 Her charms were proclaimed everywhere from the toll house to Castle Gordon.
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Toll House cookie n. (also toll-house cookie) U.S. the proprietary name of a kind of a biscuit containing chocolate chips.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > biscuit > [noun] > other biscuits
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cracknelc1440
hard breada1500
crackling1598
Naples biscuit1650
gingerbread man1686
chocolate biscuit1702
biscotin1723
sponge biscuit1736
maple biscuita1753
butter biscuit1758
nut1775
Oliver biscuit1786
funeral biscuit1790
rock biscuit?1790
ratafia1801
finger biscuit1812
Savoy drop1816
lady's finger1818
snap1819
Abernethy1830
pretzel1831
wine-biscuit1834
gingersnap1838
captain's biscuit1843
lebkuchen1847
simnel1854
sugar cookie1854
peppernut1862
McClellan pie1863
Savoy ring1866
Brown George1867
beaten biscuit1876
digestive1876
Osborne1876
Bath Oliver1878
marie1878
boer biscuit1882
charcoal biscuit1885
biscotti1886
fairing1888
snickerdoodle1889
pfeffernuss1891
zwieback1894
Nice1895
Garibaldi biscuit1896
Oswegoc1900
squashed fly1900
amaretto1905
boerebeskuit1905
Romary1905
petit beurre1906
Oswego biscuit1907
soetkoekie1910
Oreo1912
custard cream1916
Anzac1923
sweet biscuit1929
langue de chat1931
Bourbon biscuit1932
Afghan1934
flapjack1935
Florentine1936
chocolate chip cookie1938
choc chip cookie1940
Toll House cookie1940
tuile1943
pizzelle1949
black and white1967
Romany Cream1970
papri1978
1940 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 18 June 591/2 Toll House.. For Cookies. Claims use since Apr. 10, 1940.
1973 Publishers Weekly 22 Jan. 71/2 Henry begins suffering from dark spots that pop out all over his body; he soon looks like a toll-house cookie.
1978 R. Nixon Mem. 316 After our meeting we had a delicious lunch of steak and fresh corn on the cob, followed by Lady Bird's homemade toll-house cookies.
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