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. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. n. A turnpike road. Source: opted

4. n. A winding stairway. Source: opted

5. n. A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

7. n. (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid Source: wordnet

8. n. an expressway on which tolls are collected Source: wordnet

9. 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. 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

10. 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, areestablished by law, in order to collect from the users tolls todefray the cost of building, repairing, etc. Source: adambom

11. 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 Source: ecdict

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