tollhouse

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A building where a toll is collected on a toll road.
    — 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.

词形变化

tollhouses plural

词源

From toll + house. In previous centuries it was common for the toll collector to live in the tollhouse, his housing counting as part of his compensation.
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