tollhouse

English

Etymology

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.

Noun

tollhouse (plural tollhouses)

1. A building where a toll is collected on a toll road.

   Coordinate term: toll booth

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     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.

Related terms

• tollbar
• toll-collector
• tollgate
• tollhouse cookie
• tolltaker

Translations

a building where a toll is collected

• Latin: portitōrium n
• Polish: rogatka (pl) f

See also

• lockhouse