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noun

Turnpike n.

A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1. "I move upon my axle like a turnpike."

A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate.

A turnpike road.

A winding stairway. (Scot.)

(Mil.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise. (R.)

Turnpike man, a man who collects tolls at a turnpike.

Turnpike road, a road on which turnpikes, or tollgates, are established by law, in order to collect from the users tolls to defray the cost of building, repairing, etc.

verb

Turnpike v. t. (past & past part. turnpiked; pres. part. turnpiking) To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; to throw into a rounded form, as the path of a road.

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Etymology of 'Turnpike'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Turnpike" Quotes from Famous Books

... ordinary traffic between the towns of Pompville and Edgefield. But when the State built a new highway connecting these two places the old road fell into disuse, though it was several miles shorter than the new turnpike. ...

— Tom Swift and his Motor-cycle • Victor Appleton

... alternative for the settlements on the lower Ohio. His vision here was realized in a later day by the Potomac and the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Cumberland Road, the Baltimore and Ohio Railway, and by the James-Kanawha Turnpike and the ...

— The Paths of Inland Commerce - A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway, Volume 21 in The - Chronicles of America Series • Archer B. Hulbert

... the squire came out in his weather-stained scarlet coat to enjoy the sport which was the greatest pleasure life had left for him. One fine soft morning at the end of November the meet was at Kirkham turnpike, and Abbotsmead entertained the gentlemen of the ...

— The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax • Harriet Parr

... roads leading from Chancellorsville to Fredericksburg—one a plank road, which keeps up near the sources of the streams along the dividing line between Mott Run on the north and Lewis Creek and Massaponax Creek on the South, and the other called the old turnpike, which was more direct but more broken, as it passed over several ravines. There was still a third road, a very poor one, which ran near the river and came ...

— Chancellorsville and Gettysburg - Campaigns of the Civil War - VI • Abner Doubleday

... it as a propelling power in place of horses. Macadam, a Scotch surveyor, had constructed a number of very superior roads made of gravel and broken stone in the south of England, which soon made the name of "macadamized turnpike" celebrated. ...

— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery

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