noun
- a small building where tolls are collected from travelers using a road, bridge, or similar passage
- a type of chocolate chip cookie, originally made at the Toll House Inn
Usage: historical
Examples
- The old tollhouse still stands at the entrance to the historic bridge.
- Travelers had to stop at the tollhouse to pay the fee before crossing.
- The tollhouse keeper collected coins from passing carriages.
- She baked a batch of warm tollhouse cookies for the school fundraiser.
- The recipe for tollhouse cookies was invented in the 1930s.
- Nothing beats the smell of fresh tollhouse cookies in the oven.