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Webster 1913 Edition
Turnpike
Turn′pikeˊ
,Noun.
[
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.
Turn′pikeˊ
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Turnpiked
; p. pr. & vb. n.
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.
Knowles.
Webster 1828 Edition
Turnpike
TURN'PIKE
,Noun.
1.
A gate set across a road to stop travelers and carriages till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair.2.
A turnpike road.3.
In military affairs, a beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage.TURN'PIKE
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
turnpike
turnpike
English
The New Jersey turnpike.
Noun
turnpike (plural turnpikes)
- A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.
- Ben Jonson
- I move upon my axle like a turnpike.
- Ben Jonson
- A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid; a tollgate.
- (Scotland) A winding stairway.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
- (military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
- A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
- Daniel Defoe, The History of the Devil
- […] Pope Pelagius, then Bishop of Rome […] thereupon assum'd the Power of opening and shutting Heaven's Gates; and he afterwards setting a Price or Toll upon the Entrance, as we do here at passing a Turn-pike […]
- Daniel Defoe, The History of the Devil
- A road that was formerly a toll road.
Translations
frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles
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gate or bar set across a road to stop traffic — see tollgate
winding stairway
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military: beam with spikes — see cheval de frise
toll road
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former toll road
Verb
turnpike (third-person singular simple present turnpikes, present participle turnpiking, simple past and past participle turnpiked)
- To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Knowles to this entry?)
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
turnpike f, m (definite singular turnpika or turnpiken, indefinite plural turnpiker, definite plural turnpikene)
- A young female gymnast