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tolbooth

tolbooth noun: the traditional municipal building of a Scottish town or burgh, usually including a meeting-hall, court, prison and (eponymically) a place for the receipt of taxes, duties and fines. Also the archaic form of toll booth.

Noun

tolbooth (plural tolbooths)

  1. (Scotland) The traditional municipal building of a Scottish town or burgh, usually including a meeting-hall, court, prison and (eponymically) a place for the receipt of taxes, duties and fines.

Also used as

tolbooth is also the archaic form of toll booth.

Forms of tolbooth

pluraltolbooths

Questions about tolbooth

What does tolbooth mean?
Tolbooth means the traditional municipal building of a Scottish town or burgh, usually including a meeting-hall, court, prison and (eponymically) a place for the receipt of taxes, duties and fines.
What part of speech is tolbooth?
Tolbooth is a noun.
What is the plural of tolbooth?
The plural of tolbooth is tolbooths.

Words near tolbooth in the dictionary

  1. tolazoline
  2. tolazolines
  3. tolbachite
  4. Tolbar
  5. Tolbert
  6. tolbooth
  7. tolbooths
  8. tolbot
  9. tolbots
  10. tolboxane
  11. tolbutamide

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