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tollhouse

/tohl-hous/US // ˈtoʊlˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈtəʊlˌhaʊs, ˈtɒl-) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural toll·hous·es [tohl-hou-ziz]. /ˈtoʊlˌhaʊ zɪz/.

    • : a house or booth at a tollgate, occupied by a tollkeeper.

Examples

  • I have seen carriages and traps waiting as far as the tollhouse.

  • Fortune favored her again, and there he stood in the doorway of the little tollhouse.

  • I want you to stay with me, but I don't expect you to be stuck down to this tollhouse all day.

  • The carrier brought but one letter to the tollhouse, and that was for Captain Asher himself.

  • Nearly the whole of that morning Dick Lancaster sat in the arbor in the tollhouse garden, his book in his hand.