[f. TOLL sb.1 + HOUSE: cf. OHG. zolhûs, Ger. zollhaus.] A house or building at which tolls or dues are collected.

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  1.  = TOLBOOTH 1 (obs.) or 2 (now local).

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c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 496/1. Tolhowse, teloneum.

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1506.  Guylforde, Pilgr. (Camden), 49. Our Sauyor … sawe the publycan named Leui,… syttynge at the tolhous.

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1530.  Palsgr., 281/2. Tolle house, mayson de decrepte.

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1889.  N. & Q., 7th Ser. VIII. 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.

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  2.  A house by a toll-gate or toll-bridge, occupied by the toll-taker; † a railway booking-office (obs.).

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1763.  Chron., in Ann. Reg., 91/1. Richard Watson, tollman of Marybone turnpike, was … murdered in his toll-house.

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1841.  Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., IV. 322/2. The whole rise of the railway from its toll-house in Plymouth to the Prince-town terminus … is 1350 feet.

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1906.  T. Sinton, Poetry of Badenoch, 163. Her charms were proclaimed everywhere from the toll house to Castle Gordon.

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