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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.
[turn and pike.] Strictly, a frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles, and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of breasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.
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.
To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; to throw the path of a road into a rounded form.

Definition 2024

turnpike

turnpike

English

The New Jersey turnpike.

Noun

turnpike ‎(plural turnpikes)

  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 animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.
    • Ben Jonson
      I move upon my axle like a turnpike.
  2. A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid; a tollgate.
  3. (Scotland) A winding stairway.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
  4. (military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
  5. 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 […]
  6. A road that was formerly a toll road.

Translations

Verb

turnpike ‎(third-person singular simple present turnpikes, present participle turnpiking, simple past and past participle turnpiked)

  1. 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)

  1. A young female gymnast

Etymology

From Middle English turnpyke ‎(“spiked barrier across a road”), originally used to block access to such a road until toll was paid.

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