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turnpike 音标拼音: [t'ɚnp,ɑɪk] n. 收费公路;收通行税栅门 收费公路;收通行税栅门 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 [synonym: {turnpike}, {toll road}] 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. [1913 Webster] I move upon my axle like a turnpike. --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. A turnpike road. --De Foe. [1913 Webster] 4. A winding stairway. [Scot.] --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 5. (Mil.) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise. [R.] [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] 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; to throw into a rounded form, as the path of a road. --Knowles. [1913 Webster] 108 Moby Thesaurus words for "turnpike": Autobahn, French door, US highway, alley, alleyway, archway, arterial, arterial highway, arterial street, artery, autoroute, autostrada, avenue, back door, barway, belt highway, blind alley, boulevard, bulkhead, bypass, byway, camino real, carriage entrance, carriageway, causeway, causey, cellar door, cellarway, chaussee, circumferential, close, corduroy road, county road, court, crescent, cul-de-sac, dead-end street, dike, dirt road, door, doorjamb, doorpost, doorway, drive, driveway, expressway, freeway, front door, gate, gatepost, gateway, gravel road, hatch, hatchway, highroad, highway, highways and byways, interstate highway, lane, lintel, local road, main drag, main road, mews, motorway, parkway, pave, paved road, pike, place, plank road, porch, portal, porte cochere, postern, primary highway, private road, propylaeum, pylon, right-of-way, ring road, road, roadbed, roadway, route nationale, row, royal road, scuttle, secondary road, side door, speedway, state highway, stile, storm door, street, superhighway, terrace, thoroughfare, threshold, through street, thruway, toll road, tollgate, township road, trap, trap door, turnstile, wynd TURNPIKE. A public road paved with stones or other hard substance.
2. Turnpike roads are usually made by corporations to which a power to make them has been granted. The grant of such power passes not only an easement for the road itself, but also so much land as is connected with it; as, for instance, for a toll house and a cellar under it, and a well for the use of the family. 9 Pick. R. 109. A turnpike is a public highway, and a building erected before the turnpike was made, though upon a part out of the travelled path, if continued there is a nuisance. 16 Pick. R. 175. Vide Road; Street; Way.
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