Definitions
Toll road or expressway where drivers pay to use it.
Word origin
From Middle English turnpyke (“spiked barrier across a road”), originally used to block access to such a road until a toll was paid. Equivalent to modern turn + pike (“shaft”).
Used in a sentence
“[…] Pope Pelagius, then Bishop of Rome […] thereupon assum'd the Power of opening and shutting Heaven's Gates; and he afterwards setting a Price or Toll upon the Entrance, as we do here at passing a Turn-pike […]”
“Eleven Pair of Mills ſtand within Four Miles of the Place, which bring a great Trade to it: But the Road is by this means ſo continually torn, that it is one of the worſt Turnpikes about London.”
“[T]here is a bundle of pawnbrokers' duplicates, those turnpike tickets on the road of poverty ...”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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