Turnpike
['tɜːnpaɪk] or ['tɝn'paɪk]
Definition
(noun.) an expressway on which tolls are collected.
(noun.) (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid.
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Definition
(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.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A turnpike road.
(n.) A winding stairway.
(n.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.
(v. t.) To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Pike, turnpike gate.[2]. [U. S.] Turnpike road.
Editor: Paula
Examples
- Mr. Wopsle in a comprehensive black cloak, being descried entering at the turnpike, the gravedigger was admonished in a friendly way, Look out! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He was likewise furnished with a felt hat well garnished with turnpike tickets; and a carter's whip. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- This was the speediest way to reinforce Warren who was confronting the enemy on both the Orange plank and turnpike roads. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- We agreed that he should bring a carriage to the old turnpike, and thence conduct me to his house. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- July 4, 1894, when ready for test, it was hauled into the country about three miles, behind a horse carriage, and started on a nearly level turnpike. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The turnpike lamp was a blur, quite out of the lamp's usual place apparently, and its rays looked solid substance on the fog. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She seemed about to say more; but while she was speaking, we came within view of the turnpike, at the top of the Avenue Road. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Surely the straight, smooth, pure white turnpikes are jack-planed and sandpapered every day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Two experts from Edinburgh declared that traveling on it was smoother and easier than any they had known over the best turnpikes of Mr. Macadam. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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