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toll bar
noun
- a barrier, especially a gate, across a road or bridge, where toll is collected.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of toll bar1
First recorded in 1805–15
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Example Sentences
Jack's keeper offered the right toll, but the toll-bar man would not take it.
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It was a difference concerning twopence between the persons with the waggon and the man at the toll-bar.
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Bobby knew the pause at the toll-bar in the valley, and the mixed odors of many passing horses and men, there.
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He had begun the ascent to the toll-bar when he heard the clatter of a cart and the pounding of hoofs behind him.
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Those at Rome occurred on a spot, to reach which many citizens had to cross a bridge with a toll bar on it.
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