Tolbooth Definition

tōlbo͝oth
noun
A prison; a jail.
American Heritage

Tollbooth.

Webster's New World
Archaic form of toll booth.
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Noun

Singular:
tolbooth
Plural:
tolbooths

Origin of Tolbooth

  • Middle English tolbothe town hall containing customs offices and prison cells tol toll toll1 bothe booth booth

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Tolbooth Sentence Examples

  • The building replaced the tolbooth which had once stood here.

  • The public buildings include the town-hall (dating from 1762 and altered in 1876), the tolbooth (1590), and the grammar school.

  • The 1st earl of Hertford destroyed it in 1544, and after it was rebuilt the Reformers demolished it again, some of its stones being used in erecting the tolbooth.

  • Near the tolbooth stands the market cross, a stone column with a unicorn on the top supporting the burgh arms. At the west end of High Street is a statue of David Macbeth Moir ("Delta," 1798-1851), Musselburgh's most famous son.

  • The public buildings include the town hall, a fine and commodious house on the site of the old tolbooth; the Falconer museum, containing among other exhibits several valuable fossils, and named after Dr Hugh Falconer (1808-1865), the distinguished palaeontologist and botanist, a native of the town; the mechanics' institute; the agricultural and market hall; Leanchoil hospital and Anderson's Institution for poor boys.

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