toll house
Turnpike payment booth
A toll house is a small building at a bridge, road, or gate where travelers pay tolls.
Historically, toll keepers lived in these houses to collect fees around the clock.
The term survives in place names and as a trademark: Toll House cookies are chocolate chip cookies, named after the Massachusetts inn where Ruth Wakefield invented them in the 1930s.
- chocolate chip cookieSweet baked disc with cacao bits
- cookieSweet baked snack
- chocolate chipSmall sweet baking piece
- turnpikeFee-charging highway
- highwayMajor road for travel
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traveler function
toll houserest stop
Roadside traveler facility
service station · welcome center · wayside inn · service area · visitor center
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