Tollbooth

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. [Obs.] He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif (Mark ii. 14).

2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. Sir W. Scott.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To imprison in a tollbooth. [R.] That they might tollbooth Oxford men. Bp. Corbet.