Word
Turnpike
How many syllables?
2 Syllables
How it's divided?
turn-pike
Definition
- 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. t. - To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road;
into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
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