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tollway
English
Etymology
toll +? way
Noun
tollway (plural tollways)
- A toll road or toll highway, where a fee is charged in order to travel on it; a turnpike.
Translations
Anagrams
- tallowy
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turnpike
English
Etymology
From Middle English turnpyke (“spiked barrier across a road”), originally used to block access to such a road until toll was paid. Equivalent to modern turn + pike (“shaft”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??(?)npa?k/
Noun
turnpike (plural turnpikes)
- A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.
- 1626, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, Act III, Scene 1, Yale Studies in English Vol. 28, New York: Henry Holt, 1905, p. 58,[1]
- I moue vpon my axell, like a turne-pike, / Fit my face to the parties, and become / Straight one of them.
- 1626, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, Act III, Scene 1, Yale Studies in English Vol. 28, New York: Henry Holt, 1905, p. 58,[1]
- A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid,
- Synonym: tollgate
- 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., pp. 9-10,[2]
- […] it was rumour’d that an order of the Government was to be issued out, to place Turn-pikes and Barriers on the Road, to prevent Peoples travelling;
- 1728, Daniel Defoe, The Political History of the Devil, Part II, ch. 1:
- […] 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 […]
- (Scotland) A winding stairway.
- 1830, Sir Walter Scott, History of Scotland in two volumes Vol II, A AND W GALIGNANI, pages 463-464:
- Ramsay stabbed Ruthven accordingly and James lending his assistance they thrust the wounded man down the turnpike by which Ramsay had ascended Voices and steps were now heard advancing upwards and Ramsay knowing the accents called out to sir Thomas Erskine to come up the turnpike stair even to the head Sir Thomas Erskine was accompanied by sir Hugh Harris the king's physician a lame man and unfit for fighting Near the bottom of the turnpike sir Thomas Erskine in his ascent met Ruthven bleeding in the face and neck and called out Fie strike I this is the traitor l on which Alexander Ruthven was run through the body having only breath remaining to say Alas I had no blame of it
- 1830, Sir Walter Scott, History of Scotland in two volumes Vol II, A AND W GALIGNANI, pages 463-464:
- (military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
- A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
- 1769, Daniel Defoe, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, 7th edition, volume II, page 184:
- Eleven Pair of Mills ?tand within Four Miles of the Place, which bring a great Trade to it: But the Road is by this means ?o continually torn, that it is one of the wor?t Turnpikes about London.
- 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, ch 11:
- [T]here is a bundle of pawnbrokers' duplicates, those turnpike tickets on the road of poverty ...
- 1769, Daniel Defoe, A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain, 7th edition, volume II, page 184:
- (mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
Translations
Verb
turnpike (third-person singular simple present turnpikes, present participle turnpiking, simple past and past participle turnpiked)
- To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road, or into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
References
- turnpike at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Turnpike theory on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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Noun
turnpike f or m (definite singular turnpika or turnpiken, indefinite plural turnpiker, definite plural turnpikene)
- A young female gymnast
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