2. To take toll; to raise a tax. [R.]

Well could he [the miller] steal corn and toll thrice.

Chaucer.

No Italian priest Shall tithe or toll in our dominions.

Shak.

Toll, v. t. To collect, as a toll. Shak.

Toll"a*ble (?), a. Subject to the payment of toll; as, tollable goods.

Wright.

Toll"age (?), n. Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as

toll. Drayton.

Toll"booth` (?), n. [Toll a tax + booth.] [Written also tolbooth.] 1. A

place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.]

He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth.

Wyclif (Mark ii. 14).

2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town

jail. Sir W. Scott.

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