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tollhouse

tollhouse noun: a building where a toll is collected on a toll road.

Noun

tollhouse (plural tollhouses)

  1. A building where a toll is collected on a toll road.
    • At the tollhouse the road turns inland to Gledsmuir, and he who goes to the Sker Bay must leave it and cross the wild land called the Whinny Knowes, a place rough with bracken and foxes' holes and old stone cairns.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide

tollhouse meaning in Tamil

tollhouse in Tamil

சுங்கச் சாவடி

Forms of tollhouse

pluraltollhouses

Origin of tollhouse

From toll + house. In previous centuries it was common for the toll collector to live in the tollhouse, his housing counting as part of his compensation.

Phrases with tollhouse

Questions about tollhouse

What does tollhouse mean?
Tollhouse means a building where a toll is collected on a toll road.
What is tollhouse in Tamil?
Tollhouse in Tamil is சுங்கச் சாவடி. See Tollhouse meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is tollhouse?
Tollhouse is a noun.
What is the plural of tollhouse?
The plural of tollhouse is tollhouses.

Words near tollhouse in the dictionary

  1. tollgated
  2. tollgates
  3. tollgatherer
  4. tollgatherers
  5. tollgating
  6. tollhouse
  7. tollhouse cookie
  8. tollhouse cookies
  9. tollhouses
  10. tollie
  11. tollies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tollhouse (page history and authors); tollhouse (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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