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ˈtoll-ˌgatherer Now rare.
[f. toll n.1 + gatherer.]
One who collects tolls or dues; a tax-gatherer: = publican n.1 1.
1382Wyclif Matt. Prol., Fro the office of a tol gaderer he was clepid to God. 1474Caxton Chesse iii. vii. (1883) 138 Kepars of townes customers and tolle gaderers. 1555Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary, c. 7 §2 Every Toll-gatherer..shall..take their due and lawful Tolls. a1610Healey Theophrastus (1636) 25 Fit to keep an Alehouse or an Inne: to be a Pandar or a Tole-gatherer. 1766Blackstone Comm. II. xxx. 451 The horse shall be brought by both the vendor and vendee to the tollgatherer or bookkeeper of such fair or market. 1820W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 365 The toll⁓gatherer æacus would take it very ill.
So ˈtoll-ˌgathering, collection of tolls or dues.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 277 Hee bad not these Publicanes to leaue off their toll-gathering, but willed them to bee content with their appointed duty. |