Definitions for: Turnpike

[n] an expressway on which tolls are collected
[n] (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid

Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

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.

See Also: expressway, freeway, gate, motorway, pike, state highway, superhighway, throughway, thruway

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