tollboothn.

Brit.

/ˈtəʊlbuːð/,

/ˈtɒlbuːð/,

/ˈtəʊlbuːθ/,

/ˈtɒlbuːθ/, U.S.

/ˈtoʊlˌbuθ/, Scottish English

/ˈtolbuθ/

Forms: Middle English tolboþe, Middle English–1500s tolbothe, tolbuth, Middle English tolboythe, tolle buthe, tolbuthe, ( towboth, towbuthe), Middle English–1600s tolbuith, 1500s tolboth, tolboith, tolbuyth, tollboothe, tollbouthe, ( towbuyth, 1600s toolebooth, towlebooth, tolebooth), 1500s– (archaic or Scottish) tolbooth, 1600s– tollbooth, toll-booth.

Etymology: < toll n.¹ + booth n., literally the booth, stall, or shed of the tax-collector. Compare German zollbude, Danish toldbod, custom-house.

Chiefly Scottish, exc. (more recently) in sense 1.

1. A booth, stall, or office at which tolls, duties, or customs are collected; a custom-house; spec. a booth at which the toll for the right of passage across a bridge, along a road, etc., is collected.

ΘΚΠ

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

tollbooth13..

custom housea1400

toll-housec1440

dogana1605

douane1656

scale1682

excise-office1698

sayer choky1751

toll-shop1789

toll-office1841

chop-house1882

naka1984

1314–15 Rolls of Parl. I. 331/1 Mandetur..Ballivis de Tolbotha de Lenne.]

13.. Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.) in Herrig Archiv LXXXI. 309/4 Matheu cald was his name, In a Tol-boþe sat þe same.

1381 Rolls of Parl. III. 108/1 Alerent jeske a Tolbothe du dite ville [Canterbury].

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Matt. ix. 9 He seiȝ a man sittynge in a tolbothe, Matheu by name.

c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 8 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 190 Quare in þe tolbuth set lewy.

1483 Cath. Angl. 390/1 A Tolle buthe.

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 804/8 Hoc toloneum, a tolbothe.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1186/1 The tolboth in the market of Durham all of stone.

1587 Will of Richard Hunt in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 116 Excepte onelie of the tollboothe the toll and stallages of Manchester.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 14 Sitting in the Tole-booth of the Publicans, to gather up the rents.

1756 T. Nugent Grand Tour II. 133 There is here a great toll-booth, or custom-house, where toll is paid for..black cattle that pass from Jutland into Germany.

1973 Times 8 May (Hong Kong Suppl.) p. iii/9 Fourteen toll booths can be seen from the control room.

1978 D. Devine Sunk without Trace xxvi. 243 The car halted at the toll. He jumped out..to question the man in the toll-booth.

2. A town hall or guildhall.Often (esp. in Scotland) comprehending senses 1, 3.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun] > town hall

toll-hall1395

tollbooth1440

town hallc1453

town's hall?1609

Rathaus1611

booth-halla1711

palace1808

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > local government offices > town-hall

guild-hall?a1000

tolsel1373

toll-hall1395

tollbooth1440

common house1450

town hallc1453

townhouse?1518

state housea1587

City Hall1603

1440 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 32/2 The Consale Generale haldyn at Strivilyn in the tolbuthe of that ilk.

1467 Dunfermline Regr. (Bannatyne Club) 358 Þis inquisicion made at Berwik vpoun twede in þe tolbuth of þe samyn.

1593 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 817/2 Ad edificandum pretorium, carcerem domumque ponderum et telonium (lie tolbuith, prissoun, weyhous and customehous)..ad publicos usus dicti burgi.

1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 400 Publiklie be heraldis..scho [sc. the Queen] commandis, that Johne Knox, Wilok, Douglas, and Paul Meffen, compeiring in the Tolbuith of Striuiling in Judgment to mak ansuer.

1665 J. Buck in G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. (1841) App. B. 54 Upon Michaelmass day the Vice Chancellor with some of the Heads and Doctors..goe to the Toll Booth in their Scarlet Gowns, there to give the Maior his oath.

1820 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. IV. ii. 74 Margaret..offered to conduct her son (he was only in his twelfth year) to the tolbooth of Edinburgh, and to announce by proclamation that he had assumed the government.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Toll-booth... In this district it signifies a Town Hall, where the Court Baron is held, and the rents and amercements due to the Lord are paid.

1900 J. Kirkwood United Presbyterians Ayr. iii. 29 They had to perform the ceremony in the Tolbooth of Irvine.

3. A town prison, a jail.Formerly usually consisting of cells under the town hall.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]

quarternOE

prisona1200

jailc1275

lodgec1290

galleya1300

chartrea1325

ward1338

keepingc1384

prison-house1419

lying-house1423

javel1483

tollbooth1488

kidcotec1515

clinkc1530

warding-place1571

the hangman's budget1589

Newgate1592

gehenna1594

Lob's pound1597

caperdewsie1599

footman's inn1604

cappadochio1607

pena1640

marshalsea1652

log-house1662

bastille1663

naskin1673

state prison1684

tronk1693

stone-doublet1694

iron or stone doublet1698

college1699

nask1699

quod1699

shop1699

black hole1707

start1735

coop1785

blockhouse1796

stone jug1796

calaboose1797

factory1806

bull-pen1809

steel1811

jigger1812

jug1815

kitty1825

rock pile1830

bughouse1842

zindan1844

model1845

black house1846

tench1850

mill1851

stir1851

hoppet1855

booby hatch1859

caboose1865

cooler1872

skookum house1873

chokey1874

gib1877

nick1882

choker1884

logs1888

booby house1894

big house1905

hoosegow1911

can1912

detention camp1916

pokey1919

slammer1952

joint1953

slam1960

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 202 A bauk was knyt all full of rapys keyne. Sic a towboth sen syne wes neuir seyne.

c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. Acts xxiii. 35 He comandit him to be kepit in the tolbuth of Herode.

1535 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 432 The said universitie [Cambridge] hath hertefor had..the use of the kings prisoune there called the Tolbothe.

1581 N. Burne Disput. Headdis of Relig. (S.T.S.) 109 Being impresoned first in the Castel of Sanctandrois, and nixt in the tolbuith of Edinburgh.

1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. vii. 126 in Church-hist. Brit. The Major refused to give them the keys of the Toll-booth, or Town-prison.

1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Tolbuyth, the name of the chief Prison at Edenburgh.

1738 (title) Captain Porteous's Ghost, giving an Account how he was dragged from the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, by the outrageous mob, and hung by the neck like a Dog.

1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 67 I being incarcerate within the said Tolbooth, by Warrant of the Lord Justice-Clerk, for the Crime of Murder alledged committed by me.

1829 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 256 (note) Since the year 1640..the Tolbooth was occupied as a prison only.

1855 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy i. 6 I am not without some pleasing reminiscences of the gude toun of Hawick, having been boarded and lodged in the tolbooth there for the space of seven days.

4. attributive.

ΚΠ

1581 Burne in Catholic Tractates (S.T.S.) 110 At the tolbuith vindo.

1611 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 214 The crosse of stone standing in the toolebooth garth.

c1737 in W. Scott Hrt. Midl. Note D One Stoddart,..was charged of haveing boasted publickly, in a smith's shop at Leith, that he had assisted in breaking open the Tolbooth door.

1818 in W. Scott Hrt. Midl. iii[i] ‘I would claw down the tolbooth door wi' my nails,’ said Miss Grizel, ‘but I wad be at him [Porteous]’.

1847 Mrs. A. S. Menteath Lays Kirk & Covt. 65 A gleam is waking—more faintly now—Her Tolbooth prison-hold.

Derivatives

† ˈtollbooth v. obsolete to imprison in a tollbooth.Apparently an isolated use.

ΚΠ

a1635 R. Corbet Jas. I's Visit to Cambridge in Poems (1648) 35 And well bestow'd he thought his hen, That they might Tolebooth Oxford men.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	tollbooth
释义	tollboothn. Brit. /ˈtəʊlbuːð/, /ˈtɒlbuːð/, /ˈtəʊlbuːθ/, /ˈtɒlbuːθ/, U.S. /ˈtoʊlˌbuθ/, Scottish English /ˈtolbuθ/ Forms: Middle English tolboþe, Middle English–1500s tolbothe, tolbuth, Middle English tolboythe, tolle buthe, tolbuthe, ( towboth, towbuthe), Middle English–1600s tolbuith, 1500s tolboth, tolboith, tolbuyth, tollboothe, tollbouthe, ( towbuyth, 1600s toolebooth, towlebooth, tolebooth), 1500s– (archaic or Scottish) tolbooth, 1600s– tollbooth, toll-booth. Etymology: < toll n.¹ + booth n., literally the booth, stall, or shed of the tax-collector. Compare German zollbude, Danish toldbod, custom-house. Chiefly Scottish, exc. (more recently) in sense 1. 1. A booth, stall, or office at which tolls, duties, or customs are collected; a custom-house; spec. a booth at which the toll for the right of passage across a bridge, along a road, etc., is collected. ΘΚΠ 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 tollbooth13.. custom housea1400 toll-housec1440 dogana1605 douane1656 scale1682 excise-office1698 sayer choky1751 toll-shop1789 toll-office1841 chop-house1882 naka1984 1314–15 Rolls of Parl. I. 331/1 Mandetur..Ballivis de Tolbotha de Lenne.] 13.. Propr. Sanct. (Vernon MS.) in Herrig Archiv LXXXI. 309/4 Matheu cald was his name, In a Tol-boþe sat þe same. 1381 Rolls of Parl. III. 108/1 Alerent jeske a Tolbothe du dite ville [Canterbury]. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Matt. ix. 9 He seiȝ a man sittynge in a tolbothe, Matheu by name. c1480 (a1400) St. Matthew 8 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 190 Quare in þe tolbuth set lewy. 1483 Cath. Angl. 390/1 A Tolle buthe. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 804/8 Hoc toloneum, a tolbothe. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 1186/1 The tolboth in the market of Durham all of stone. 1587 Will of Richard Hunt in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1861) III. 116 Excepte onelie of the tollboothe the toll and stallages of Manchester. 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 14 Sitting in the Tole-booth of the Publicans, to gather up the rents. 1756 T. Nugent Grand Tour II. 133 There is here a great toll-booth, or custom-house, where toll is paid for..black cattle that pass from Jutland into Germany. 1973 Times 8 May (Hong Kong Suppl.) p. iii/9 Fourteen toll booths can be seen from the control room. 1978 D. Devine Sunk without Trace xxvi. 243 The car halted at the toll. He jumped out..to question the man in the toll-booth. 2. A town hall or guildhall.Often (esp. in Scotland) comprehending senses 1, 3. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > public building > [noun] > town hall toll-hall1395 tollbooth1440 town hallc1453 town's hall?1609 Rathaus1611 booth-halla1711 palace1808 society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > local government body > [noun] > local government offices > town-hall guild-hall?a1000 tolsel1373 toll-hall1395 tollbooth1440 common house1450 town hallc1453 townhouse?1518 state housea1587 City Hall1603 1440 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 32/2 The Consale Generale haldyn at Strivilyn in the tolbuthe of that ilk. 1467 Dunfermline Regr. (Bannatyne Club) 358 Þis inquisicion made at Berwik vpoun twede in þe tolbuth of þe samyn. 1593 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 817/2 Ad edificandum pretorium, carcerem domumque ponderum et telonium (lie tolbuith, prissoun, weyhous and customehous)..ad publicos usus dicti burgi. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 400 Publiklie be heraldis..scho [sc. the Queen] commandis, that Johne Knox, Wilok, Douglas, and Paul Meffen, compeiring in the Tolbuith of Striuiling in Judgment to mak ansuer. 1665 J. Buck in G. Peacock Observ. Statutes Univ. Cambr. (1841) App. B. 54 Upon Michaelmass day the Vice Chancellor with some of the Heads and Doctors..goe to the Toll Booth in their Scarlet Gowns, there to give the Maior his oath. 1820 J. Lingard Hist. Eng. IV. ii. 74 Margaret..offered to conduct her son (he was only in his twelfth year) to the tolbooth of Edinburgh, and to announce by proclamation that he had assumed the government. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Toll-booth... In this district it signifies a Town Hall, where the Court Baron is held, and the rents and amercements due to the Lord are paid. 1900 J. Kirkwood United Presbyterians Ayr. iii. 29 They had to perform the ceremony in the Tolbooth of Irvine. 3. A town prison, a jail.Formerly usually consisting of cells under the town hall. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] quarternOE prisona1200 jailc1275 lodgec1290 galleya1300 chartrea1325 ward1338 keepingc1384 prison-house1419 lying-house1423 javel1483 tollbooth1488 kidcotec1515 clinkc1530 warding-place1571 the hangman's budget1589 Newgate1592 gehenna1594 Lob's pound1597 caperdewsie1599 footman's inn1604 cappadochio1607 pena1640 marshalsea1652 log-house1662 bastille1663 naskin1673 state prison1684 tronk1693 stone-doublet1694 iron or stone doublet1698 college1699 nask1699 quod1699 shop1699 black hole1707 start1735 coop1785 blockhouse1796 stone jug1796 calaboose1797 factory1806 bull-pen1809 steel1811 jigger1812 jug1815 kitty1825 rock pile1830 bughouse1842 zindan1844 model1845 black house1846 tench1850 mill1851 stir1851 hoppet1855 booby hatch1859 caboose1865 cooler1872 skookum house1873 chokey1874 gib1877 nick1882 choker1884 logs1888 booby house1894 big house1905 hoosegow1911 can1912 detention camp1916 pokey1919 slammer1952 joint1953 slam1960 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) vii. l. 202 A bauk was knyt all full of rapys keyne. Sic a towboth sen syne wes neuir seyne. c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1905) III. Acts xxiii. 35 He comandit him to be kepit in the tolbuth of Herode. 1535 T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman Life & Lett. T. Cromwell (1902) I. 432 The said universitie [Cambridge] hath hertefor had..the use of the kings prisoune there called the Tolbothe. 1581 N. Burne Disput. Headdis of Relig. (S.T.S.) 109 Being impresoned first in the Castel of Sanctandrois, and nixt in the tolbuith of Edinburgh. 1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. vii. 126 in Church-hist. Brit. The Major refused to give them the keys of the Toll-booth, or Town-prison. 1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Tolbuyth, the name of the chief Prison at Edenburgh. 1738 (title) Captain Porteous's Ghost, giving an Account how he was dragged from the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, by the outrageous mob, and hung by the neck like a Dog. 1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 67 I being incarcerate within the said Tolbooth, by Warrant of the Lord Justice-Clerk, for the Crime of Murder alledged committed by me. 1829 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 256 (note) Since the year 1640..the Tolbooth was occupied as a prison only. 1855 J. D. Burn Autobiogr. Beggar Boy i. 6 I am not without some pleasing reminiscences of the gude toun of Hawick, having been boarded and lodged in the tolbooth there for the space of seven days. 4. attributive. ΚΠ 1581 Burne in Catholic Tractates (S.T.S.) 110 At the tolbuith vindo. 1611 Acct.-bk. W. Wray in Antiquary (1896) 32 214 The crosse of stone standing in the toolebooth garth. c1737 in W. Scott Hrt. Midl. Note D One Stoddart,..was charged of haveing boasted publickly, in a smith's shop at Leith, that he had assisted in breaking open the Tolbooth door. 1818 in W. Scott Hrt. Midl. iii[i] ‘I would claw down the tolbooth door wi' my nails,’ said Miss Grizel, ‘but I wad be at him [Porteous]’. 1847 Mrs. A. S. Menteath Lays Kirk & Covt. 65 A gleam is waking—more faintly now—Her Tolbooth prison-hold. Derivatives † ˈtollbooth v. obsolete to imprison in a tollbooth.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ a1635 R. Corbet Jas. I's Visit to Cambridge in Poems (1648) 35 And well bestow'd he thought his hen, That they might Tolebooth Oxford men. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.13..
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