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ˈtoll-house
[f. toll n.1 + house: cf. OHG. zolhûs, Ger. zollhaus.]
A house or building at which tolls or dues are collected.
1. = toll-booth 1 (Obs.) or 2 (now local).
c1440Promp. Parv. 496/1 Tolhowse, teloneum. 1506Sir R. Guylforde Pilgr. (Camden) 49 Our Sauyor..sawe the publycan named Leui,..syttynge at the tolhous. 1530Palsgr. 281/2 Tolle house, mayson de decrepte. 1889N. & Q. 7th Ser. VIII. 213/1 The ‘tolhouse’ or ‘tolbooth’ (as our town halls were called in the Middle Ages). In this place [Great Yarmouth] the name of ‘tolhouse’ is still retained.
2. A house by a toll-gate or toll-bridge, occupied by the toll-taker; † a railway booking-office (obs.).
1763Chron. in Ann. Reg. 91/1 Richard Watson, tollman of Marybone turnpike, was..murdered in his toll-house. 1841Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. IV. 322/2 The whole rise of the railway from its toll-house in Plymouth to the Prince-town terminus..is 1350 feet. 1906T. Sinton Poetry of Badenoch 163 Her charms were proclaimed everywhere from the toll house to Castle Gordon.
3. attrib. and Comb.: Toll House cookie (also toll-house cookie) U.S., the proprietary name of a kind of a biscuit containing chocolate chips.
1940Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 18 June 591/2 Toll House.. For Cookies. Claims use since Apr. 10, 1940. 1962Trade Marks Jrnl. 14 Feb. 179/1 Toll House. All goods included in Class 30. 1973Publishers Weekly 22 Jan. 71/2 Henry begins suffering from dark spots that pop out all over his body; he soon looks like a toll-house cookie. 1978R. Nixon Memoirs 316 After our meeting we had a delicious lunch of steak and fresh corn on the cob, followed by Lady Bird's homemade toll-house cookies. |