turnpike debate ENDED

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TURNPIKE:



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.