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Definition of Turnpike

1. Noun. (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid.

Definition of Turnpike

1. 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.

2. v. t. To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.

Definition of Turnpike

1. Noun. (US) A toll road, especially a toll expressway. ¹

2. Noun. A road formerly a toll road. ¹

3. Verb. To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Turnpike

1. a highway on which tolls are collected [n -S]

Medical Definition of Turnpike

1. 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. "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. 4. A winding stairway. 5. A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise. 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. Origin: Turn + pike. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Turnpike

Literary usage of Turnpike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays in the Earlier History of American Corporations by Joseph Stancliffe Davis (1917)
"15 NY Great Western turnpike Road, The P., D. and First Company of the. ... The Windham turnpike Company. June 22 Mass. Sixth Massachusetts turnpike ..."

2. Index of Economic Material in the Documents of the States of the United by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse, Carnegie Institution of Washington. Dept. of Economics and Sociology (1912)
"Gallipolis and Chillicothe turnpike 1829. Kept, of comrs. apptd. to view a ... Table of Goshen, Wilmington and Columbus turnpike Road Co. showing amt of ..."

3. Index of Economic Material in Documents of the States of the United States by Adelaide Rosalia Hasse (1910)
"Auditor's tabular stmt. of turnpike cos. which have failed to make repts., date of last rept., and names of pres. and treasurer of turnpike cos. in which ..."

4. English Local Government: The Story of the King's Highway by Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1913)
"3, Leicester and Hinckley turnpike Act, 1800). The 1663 Act had required pits ... The relations between the Parish Surveyor and the turnpike Surveyor thus ..."

5. The Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1828)
"turnpike TRUSTS BILL.] Mr. Littleton »aid, he rose to submit to the House the Resolutions, of which he had given notice, on this subject. ..."

6. Journal by New York (State). Legislature. Senate (1830)
"On the bill for the relief of Elizabeth Paine and others, 334 Ezra Thorp, 265 Israel Dean and John De Peyster, 365 relative to the Dutchess turnpike company ..."

7. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1905)
"A turnpike Is a highway, differing neither In responsibility for proper maintenance, ... A turnpike road is a road having toll- gates or bars on It, ..."

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