Tollbooth
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Black's (1910), Abbott (1879)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A prison; a custom house; an exchange; also the place where goods are weighed.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
1. A house or booth for collection of tolls or market charges; a custom-house; also, a prison. Dr. Jamieson conjectures that the word to Ubooth, originally signifying a place of custom, was transferred in its application to the place of confinement for those who refused to pay custom, and thence to prisons generally. The To Ubooth of Edinburgh was built by the citizens in the year 1561, for the accommodation of the parliament and courts of justice, and for the confinement of debtors and malefactors. From the year 1640 this building was used solely for a jail, till its removal in 1817. (Amot; Eng. Encycl.) Mozley Sf W.