Definitions for tollgate

tollgate toll·gate

Spelling: [tohl-geyt]
IPA: /ˈtoʊlˌgeɪt/

Tollgate is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 166 anagrams from letters in tollgate (aegllott).

Definitions for tollgate

noun

  1. a gate where a toll is collected.

Origin of tollgate

First recorded in 1765-75; toll1 + gate1

Examples for tollgate

A girl had the presence of mind to close the tollgate, which the horses attempted to leap, smashed it to atoms, and fell.

This spring is about one-third of a mile west of the tollgate on the National turnpike.

He informs the girl who keeps the tollgate that he is a preacher; no doubt in this boy's mind as to what he is!

The same glance will also show you the tollgate, which you could not see before.

Shortly after leaving the village of the tollgate I came to a beautiful valley.

They came to the tollgate, which was politely opened and closed again without their having to get down from the sledge.

Towards evening I arrived at a very small and pretty village in the middle of which was a tollgate.

Passing through a tollgate I found myself in a kind of suburb consisting of a few cottages.

Last summer I met a fine fox on the turnpike road and close to a tollgate, in the middle of the day.

Whereupon she told me that it was called Tref y Talcot—the village of the tollgate.

Word Value for tollgate
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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