Thesaurus: turnpike

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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. n. 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. n. A turnpike road.
4. n. A winding stairway.
5. n. A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.
6. v. t. To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
7. n. (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
8. n. an expressway on which tolls are collected
9. n:100 n. (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid n. an expressway on which tolls are collected