What's the difference between tolbooth and tollbooth?
Tolbooth
Definition:
(n.) See Tollbooth.
Example Sentences:
Tollbooth
Definition:
(n.) A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll.
(n.) In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail.
(v. t.) To imprison in a tollbooth.
Example Sentences:
(1) When it is not clogged with weekend traffic, Container – the English word is used in Arabic – is a desolate spot: a lonely stretch of asphalt, four dingy tollbooth-like structures painted white and green, a few bored Israeli soldiers with automatic rifles.
(2) In doing so it creates a tollbooth economy: a system of corporate turnpikes, operated by companies with effective monopolies.
(3) If anyone still used the words "information superhighway" these would be the tollbooths.
(4) But BSkyB has an even more important attribute that News Corporation lacks: it is a massive and well-run tollbooth on the media highway.
(5) "Today, starting such a service would entail navigating a number of new tollbooths and gatekeepers," Brin noted.
(6) I wonder if they'd be more successful as a pressure group campaigning to make the web better, rather than a tollbooth for online content.” “Ironically… Adblock Plus is itself funded by advertising, via the whitelisted publishers,” adds Blanchard.