turnpike
turnpike is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 5 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.A turnpike road. De Foe.
- 3.A winding stairway. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
- 4.(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.
- 5.To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road. Knowles.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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- What is 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 called?
- What is a winding stairway. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott called?
- What is to form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road. Knowles called?
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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