tollman
nounEtymology From toll + -man.
1
A man who receives or collects a toll.
- And now the turnpike gates again Flew open in short space, The tollmen thinking, as before, That Gilpin rode a race1782 (date written), William Cowper, “The Diverting History of John Gilpin, […]”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], published 1785, →OCLC:
- Related terms
- tollperson, tollwoman