ˈtoll-ˌgatherer Now rare.
[f. toll n.1 + gatherer.]
One who collects tolls or dues; a tax-gatherer: = publican n.1 1.
| 1382 Wyclif Matt. Prol., Fro the office of a tol gaderer he was clepid to God. 1474 Caxton Chesse iii. vii. (1883) 138 Kepars of townes customers and tolle gaderers. 1555 Act 2 & 3 Phil. & Mary, c. 7 §2 Every Toll-gatherer..shall..take their due and lawful Tolls. a 1610 Healey Theophrastus (1636) 25 Fit to keep an Alehouse or an Inne: to be a Pandar or a Tole-gatherer. 1766 Blackstone Comm. II. xxx. 451 The horse shall be brought by both the vendor and vendee to the tollgatherer or bookkeeper of such fair or market. 1820 W. Tooke tr. Lucian I. 365 The toll⁓gatherer æacus would take it very ill. |
So ˈtoll-ˌgathering, collection of tolls or dues.
| 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 277 Hee bad not these Publicanes to leaue off their toll-gathering, but willed them to bee content with their appointed duty. |