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.
© Webster 1913.
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.
© Webster 1913.