Hypertext Webster Gateway: "turnpike"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Turnpike \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Turnpike \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
turnpike
n 1: (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to
prevent passage until a toll had been paid
2: an expressway on which tolls are collected
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