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tolbooth
[ tohl-booth, -booth ]
noun
- a town jail.
- a town hall or guild hall, especially a place where tolls are paid.
tolbooth
/ -ËŒbuËð; ˈtÉ’l-; ˈtəʊlËŒbuËθ /
noun
- a town hall
- a variant spelling of tollbooth
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Example Sentences
Up till 1810 the town council met in a hall adjoining the old tolbooth.
On Saturday, the 12th of April 1567, a Justiciary Court was held in the tolbooth of Edinburgh, for the trial of the Earl of Bothwell.
On reaching Edinburgh, I was placed in the tolbooth, where many other sufferers for the cause of the Gospel were then lying.
I answered, That lies not yet in your power: so they caused quickly to take me away, and put me in the iron-house tolbooth.
He remembered that Diana Vernon had left the library and immediately returned with the letter which was afterwards claimed by Rob Roy in the tolbooth of Glasgow.
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