Crossword clues for turnpike
turnpike
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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; into a
rounded form, as the path of a road.
--Knowles.
Turnpike \Turn"pike`\, n. [Turn + pike.]
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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. 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.
A turnpike road.
--De Foe.A winding stairway. [Scot.]
--Sir W. Scott.-
(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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "spiked road barrier used for defense," from turn + pike (n.2) "shaft." Sense transferred to "horizontal cross of timber, turning on a vertical pin" (1540s), which were used to bar horses from foot roads. This led to the sense of "barrier to stop passage until a toll is paid" (1670s). Meaning "road with a toll gate" is from 1748, shortening of turnpike road (1745).
Wiktionary
n. 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 animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. 2 A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid; a tollgate. 3 (context Scotland English) A winding stairway. 4 (context military English) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise. 5 (context US English) A toll road, especially a toll expressway. 6 A road that was formerly a toll road. vb. To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
WordNet
n. (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
an expressway on which tolls are collected
Wikipedia
Turnpike may refer to:
Turnpike was a British-developed email and news client for Microsoft Windows, with an associated program for handling the Internet connection. The software, originally written by Chris Hall and Richard Clayton (who had previously been the co-founders and principal programmers of Locomotive Software), first appeared in 1995. It was acquired by Demon Internet later the same year and for a number of years was supplied to their customers free of charge (in a variant which would not work with other ISPs). It also had a small following of non-Demon users. Amongst its early reviews were those in Everyday Practical Electronics in November, 1995 and PC Format in Spring 1997.
The suite consisted of two principal components, Connect, which interfaced with the modem driver or LAN, and Turnpike, which controlled, sorted and displayed news articles and email. The Connect window also provided telnet, finger, ping, and traceroute functions, call cost monitoring for dialup connections, and, in earlier versions and those upgraded therefrom, Ipswitch's WS_FTP; it had up to 20 buttons which linked to these functions and any other application the user chose to configure (by default including Internet Explorer). Prior to version 6 the Turnpike component was a stand-alone executable whilst from version 6 onwards it was implemented as a Windows Shell namespace extension. Mail filtering was done using Unix-like regular expressions. It used the Berkeley mailbox format for the export and import of email files.
Versions 4 and beyond were 32-bit, and early versions of 5 included PGP.
It works with Windows up to (as of 2016) Windows version 10, with the caveat that Turnpike version 6 (due to the shell namespace usage) only works with the 32-bit, not the 64-bit, variants of Windows 7 onwards (it works satisfactorily in virtual machines running 32-bit Windows hosted on machines running the 64-bit versions). Although no Linux port was produced, all versions worked satisfactorily under packages such as the proprietary Win4Lin. Versions up to and including 5 also worked quite well under Wine.
Versions 5 and 6 received the Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval in 2011.
Turnpike is no longer supported
The Turnpike is a ride at Kennywood amusement park in Pittsburgh, United States. It was introduced in spring 1966. The Turnpike originally had gasoline powered cars, which were later replaced with electric cars.
Kennywood decommissioned the Turnpike in 2010 but announced that the ride would return in the future in a different location. The Turnpike was replaced with a steel coaster called the Sky Rocket.
Usage examples of "turnpike".
They suddenly came under a barrage from Yankee batteries on the far side of the turnpike.
Only once did I perceive a human being, and that was at the intersection of our crossroad with the wide, white turnpike which cuts each cultivated district longitudinally at its exact center.
The bookshop itself, with its copiously furnished shelves on the ground floor and its cramped lodgings one twist of a turnpike stair above those, had resided on London Bridgeand in a corner of Nonsuch House, the most handsome of its buildingsfor much longer: almost forty years.
As they walked together along the plashy turnpike road, overtaking, now and then, groups of two or three who were out on the same errand as themselves, Lancelot could not help remarking to the keeper how superior was the look of comfort in the boys and young men, with their ruddy cheeks and smart dresses, to the worn and haggard appearance of the elder men.
In the dingy motel room, yellow plasterboard walls shook from the turnpike traffic.
I walked to the lot, repurchased my old pickup and took the fastest route through a light rain toward the Sunshine Turnpike, swallowing the little bits of acid that kept collecting in the back of my throat.
They all had their book-bags, pockets, and arms filled with stones lately broken for mending the turnpike road, mostly granite, but partly whinstone and flint.
Doctor Ephraim Sprague, who attended him, and had the doctor call the Lewiston House and bring me to that gloomy estate on the Aylesbury Road near the Innsmouth Turnpike.
The cultist was as he remembered her from the turnpike: a pale, thin blonde.
Several years before, when the Valley turnpike had gone to Teesdale from Doncaster instead of coming to Ironside, the old house had changed hands again at a forced sale, and a few months later Dr.
He has deployed across the turnpike and is now strengthening those lines, Sir.
They watched the taillights until they were out of sight down the turnpike, neither of them saying a word.
Near Roslyn they swung off the turnpike into an unfrequented, shady road.
They left the turnpike for a road which followed a wide dyke, and which was so uneven that it shook Eben and Bob out of their slumbers.
Scenes of mayhem from Londonderry to Chandigarh, an overweight family rowing down main street in a freak flood in Ohio, a molasses truck overturned on the Jersey Turnpike, gunfire, stabbings, flaming police cars and blazing ambulances celebrating a league basketball championship in Detroit interspersed with a decrepit grinning couple on a bed that warped and heaved at the touch of a button because they offered him a settlement Harry, almost a quarter million dollars but of course he insists on going ahead with the case or rather Mister Basic does, he was out here for.