Turnpike definitions

Turnpike

1) Artery 2) Expressway 3) Road
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Turnpike

1) Gate 2) Go to staff barrier 3) Limited-access toll highway 4) Pre-Interstate superhighway 5) Toll barrier 6) Toll road 7) Tollgate
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turnpike

toll road
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Turnpike

[ride] The Turnpike is a ride at Kennywood amusement park in Pittsburgh, United States. It was introduced in spring 1966. The Turnpike originally had gasoline powered cars and then they got electric cars. Kennywood decommissioned the Turnpike in 2010, although announced that it would return in the future in a different location. The Turnpik...
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Turnpike

• (n.) A turnpike road. • (n.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise. • (n.) A winding stairway. • (v. t.) To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road. • (n.) A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till...
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Turnpike

Specifically the gate across a toll road. However, used as a general term for these roads established by private enterprises of the 17th to 19th centuries, (see under toll road).
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turnpike

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. '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, ...
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Turnpike

A turnpike was a gate across a road to prevent the passage of vehicles or pedestrians until a toll had been paid. The term turnpike was also applied to the toll road itself.
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Turnpike

A turnpike was a beam filled with spikes and fixed in, or across, a road or passage, to obstruct the passage and thereby provide a defence against sudden attack.
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Turnpike

Turnpike was a 16th century Scottish term for a spiral staircase.
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turnpike

[n] - (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid 2. [n] - an expressway on which tolls are collected
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turnpike

noun an expressway on which tolls are collected
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974

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turnpike

a high-speed highway, esp. one maintained by tolls. · (formerly) a barrier set across such a highway to stop passage until a toll has been paid; tollgate.
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