Usage of "tollkeeper"

Someone employed to collect tolls.

toll agent

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Examples for "tollman"

Turkey stands the tollman at the turnpike-gate, controlling and usurping the highway of all nations. 
 St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1... 

At last, he came to the bridge over the Clyde, and there the tollman directed us to the Observatory. 
 Travellers' Stories 

Eben Tollman was sitting in a stiff-backed chair across from his host. 
 The Tyranny of Weakness 

But Conscience Tollman only shook her head and smiled her unconverted scepticism. 
 The Tyranny of Weakness 

Tollman remained unhospitably rigid and his eyes narrowed into an immediate hostility. 
 The Tyranny of Weakness 

When the from the bushes behind which the toller hides till the bird is in range. 
 The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search o... 

Mrs. Poulter signified to Miss Toller her extreme surprise at the suggestion. 
 More Pages from a Journal 

Yes; I did have a talk, in your best interests, with Miss Toller. 
 The Guilty River 

And Sophy Toller is all I could desire in a daughter-in-law. 
 Middlemarch 

The whole of the correspondence was shown to me by Mrs. Stephen Toller. 
 The Guilty River 

Mully just clowned around and took a lowly job as a toll collector. 
 The new yorker 

The toll collector still had not appeared. 
 The Godfather 

The bridges will stay open, but they will not be staffed by toll collectors. 
 The Irish Times 

Harbormasters, tax farmers, customs sergeants, wool factors, toll collectors, pursers, wine factors; nine of every ten belonged to Littlefinger. 
 A clash of kings 

This will be a marriage of cattle thieves and toll collectors, one lot of coin clinkers joining with another. 
 A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms 

Sonny handed the toll taker the dollar bill and waited for his change. 
 The Godfather 

But the toll taker was fumbling with his change; the dumb son of a bitch actually dropped it. 
 The Godfather 

And so they exchanged; the toll taker at the barrier kept the goose, and the peasant carried away the fowl. 
 Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 

Thanks in part to the contracts, investors have viewed the midstream operators as toll takers insulated from the volatility of energy prices. 
 Reuters 

Usage of tollkeeper in English

And when they passed a toll-gate, all the tollkeeper's family and neighbors came out to see the array. 
 Old Caravan Days 

Tollkeeper through the time

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Meanings of tollkeeper in English