| 单词 | turnpike gate |
| 释义 | > as lemmasturnpike gate turnpike gate n. †(a) a gate or door at the foot of a turnpike stair (Sc.); †(b) = sense 1; (c) = sense 4. ΚΠ 1513 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1902) IV. 526 To the..smyth for viij score of square hedit nalis to the turnepyk yett of the nethir toure. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 88/1 A Turne pike... Some terme it a Turnepike Gate. 1793 J. Woodforde Diary 21 July (1929) IV. 45 We got to Bruton Turnpike Gate. 1806 Chron. 19 Feb. in Ann. Reg. (1808) 371/2 A boy riding on a cart, drove against a turnpike-gate. 1841 Dickens Barnaby Rudge iii. 249 The horse stopped until the turnpike gate was opened. 1889 F. E. Gretton Memory's Harkback 115 The wheelers..knocked against the turnpike-gate-post in passing through. < as lemmas |
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