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Definition of Shunpikes
1. shunpike [v] - See also: shunpike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shunpikes
Literary usage of Shunpikes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence as Administered in England and America by Joseph Story, Jairus Ware Perry (1877)
"... by preventing the establishment of short by-roads (commonly called shunpikes),
to destroy their tolls.1 So (as we have seen), an injunction will lie to ..."
2. The Turnpikes of New England and Evolution of the Same Through England by Frederic James Wood (1919)
"The Twelfth evidently had trouble with " shunpikes," or feared it would have,
for we find it enacted into law in 1806 that no landowner should allow a road ..."
3. In the Brush; Or, Old-time Social, Political, and Religious Life in the by Hamilton Wilcox Pierson (1881)
"At various points along the "pike," as it was universally called, I saw tracks
leading off into the woods, and was told that they were known as " shunpikes ..."
4. Commentaries on Equity Jurisprudence: As Administered in England and America by Joseph Story (1886)
"... secure the due enjoyment of their privileges by preventing the establishment
of short by-roads (commonly called shunpikes) to destroy their tolls.2 (6) ..."
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