Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bar or beam, or (now usually) a gate, thrown across a road or other passage at a tollhouse, for the purpose of preventing passengers, vehicles, cattle, etc., from passing without payment of toll; a turnpike.
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- noun a
gate or otherbarrier placed across aroad where a toll is taken
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Examples
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Flodden, the road descends a long hill, at the bottom of which and just as it is preparing to mount upon the other side, it passes a toll-bar and issues at once into the open country.
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By this time we had arrived at a small village, with a toll-bar and a small church or chapel at some little distance from the road, which here made a turn nearly full south.
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Nothing farther worth relating occurred till we reached the toll-bar at the head of the hen ffordd, by which time the sun was almost gone down.
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Tom was a carter by trade, but once kept a toll-bar in
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Presently I came to a little cottage with a toll-bar.
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A race also was frequent at the end. of these wedding expeditions, from the bridge to the toll-bar at
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Jack's keeper offered the right toll, but the toll-bar man would not take it.
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He then went on his way, while the toll-bar man stood petrified to see what a mistake he had made in demanding an unjust toll from an elephant.
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It was before our toll-bars were abolished, and there stood, near Tattershall bridge, a toll-bar with gate made formidable by a chevaux de frise of iron spikes.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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Canterbury in England, when they came to a toll-bar.
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