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Turnpike - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Turnpike : (noun)
1: (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to
prevent passage until a toll had been paid
2: an expressway on which tolls are collected
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Turnpike : \Turn"pike`\, n. [Turn _ pike.]
1. 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. --B. Jonson.
2. 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.
3. A turnpike road. --De Foe.
4. A winding stairway. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott.
5. (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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Turnpike : \Turn"pike`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Turnpiked; p. pr. &
vb. n. Turnpiking.]
To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a
rounded form, as the path of a road. --Knowles.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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TURNPIKE. A public road paved with stones or other hard substance.
2.Turnpike : roads are usually made by corporations to which a power to
make them has been granted. The grant of such power passes not only an
easement for the road itself, but also so much land as is connected with it;
as, for instance, for a toll house and a cellar under it, and a well for the
use of the family. 9 Pick. R. 109. A turnpike is a public highway, and a
building erected before the turnpike was made, though upon a part out of the
travelled path, if continued there is a nuisance. 16 Pick. R. 175. Vide
Road; Street; Way.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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