tolsey
English
Noun
tolsey (plural tolseys)
- (obsolete) A tollbooth.
- (obsolete) A merchants' meeting place or exchange.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tolsey”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From toll (“toll”) + selde (“store”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tolsey
Descendants
- English: tolsey
References
- “tol-sel (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.