Turnpike Definition

tûrnpīk
turnpikes
noun
turnpikes
A turnstile.
Webster's New World
A tollgate.
American Heritage

Tollgate.

Webster's New World
A toll road, esp. one that is an expressway.
Webster's New World

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.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:
verb
To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
Wiktionary

Other Word Forms of Turnpike

Noun

Singular:
turnpike
Plural:
turnpikes

Origin of Turnpike

  • Middle English turnepike spiked barrier turnen to turn turn pike sharp point pike5

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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

    From Wiktionary

Turnpike Sentence Examples

  • He'd take the turnpike extension south.

  • The various grounds of exemption from toll on turnpike roads were all of a public character, e.g.

  • By the 1830s, many roads had been improved by the turnpike trusts.

  • That shift came with the dawning of a new century and Route 66 got a new turnpike to the ' Super Highway ' .

  • This was one of the toll gates on the first turnpike in the area - built in 1758 to link Sheffield to Sparrowpit.

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