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ˈturnpike road
A road on which turnpikes are or were erected for the collection of tolls; hence, a main road or highway, formerly maintained by a toll levied on cattle and wheeled vehicles. Also fig.
1745Wesley Wks. (1830) I. 485 Turnpike roads were not known in that part of England till some years after. 1776Adam Smith W.N. i. xi. i. (1869) I. 156 Some of the counties in the neighbourhood of London petitioned the Parliament against the extension of the turnpike roads into the remoter counties. 1845McCulloch Taxation Introd. (1852) 33 It was not..till after the peace of Paris, in 1763, that turnpike⁓roads began to be extended to all parts of the kingdom. Ibid. ii. x. 377 It has..been proposed to abolish tolls, as being essentially partial and unfair, and to raise a fund for constructing and repairing turnpike roads by a tax on property assessed and collected in the same way..as the rate for cross and parish roads. 1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 16 After an hour's ride, by cross-country lanes and by-paths, they struck into the turnpike road. |