Turnpike

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A toll road, especially an expressway with tollgates.
  • n. A tollgate.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
  • n. A road formerly a toll road.
  • v. To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • n. A turnpike road.
  • n. A winding stairway.
  • n. A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.
  • v. To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; to throw into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A frame of pikes or pointed bars, a kind of revolving cheval-de-frise, set in a narrow passage to obstruct the progress of an enemy.
  • n. A turnstile.
  • n. A gate set across a road, in order to stop carriages, wagons, etc., and sometimes foot-travelers, till toll is paid; a toll-bar; a toll-gate.
  • n. A turnpike road.
  • n. A turnpike-stair.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • 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
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    gate    state highway    expressway    throughway    thruway   
    Cross Reference
    turnpike road    turnpike sailor   
    Variant
    turnstile   
    Form
    turnpiked    turnpiking   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    tollgate    cheval-de-frise    road   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    freeway    expressway    eastbound    highway    parkway   
     
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