TURNPIKE
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Turn"pike` (?), n. [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.
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I move upon my axle like a turnpike.
B. Jonson.
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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.
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3. A turnpike road. De Foe.
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4. A winding stairway. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.
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5. (Mil.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise. [R.]
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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.
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Turn"pike` (?), v. 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.
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