tollgate

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a gate or bar across a toll bridge or toll road which is lifted when the toll is paid

From toll + gate.

The tollgate keeper hobbled back to his chair, and Sairy returned to her dinner. — The Long Roll, Mary Johnston
It chanced that during the experimental journey he and his fireman came to a tollgate and puffing up to the keeper with the baby steam engine, they asked what the fee would be for it to pass. — Steve and the Steam Engine, Sara Ware Bassett
You had there between your teeth a pretty slice of our Paris.” All at once he broke out explosively, “Pasque-Dieu! What people are those who claim to be voyers, justiciaries, lords and masters in our domains? who have their tollgates at the end of every field? their gallows and their hangman at every cross-road among our people? — Notre-Dame de Paris, Victor Hugo

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