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.
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.
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; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
Knowles.
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.
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.
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; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
Knowles.
