tollman

English

Etymology

toll +‎ -man

Noun

tollman (plural tollmen)

A man who receives or collects a toll.
- 1782 (date written), William Cowper, “The Diverting History of John Gilpin, […]”, in The Task, a Poem, […], London: […] J[oseph] Johnson; […], published 1785, →OCLC:
  
  And now the turnpike gates again
  Flew open in short space,
  The tollmen thinking, as before,
  That Gilpin rode a race

Related terms

References

tollman in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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