tollhouse

English

Etymology

From toll +‎ house.

Noun

tollhouse (plural tollhouses)

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

Derived terms

• tollhouse cookie

Translations

a building where a toll is collected

• Latin: portitōrium n