ˈturnpike roadn.
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.
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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road > turnpike or toll-road
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1745 J. Wesley Wks. (1830) I. 485 Turnpike roads were not known in that part of England till some years after.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I. i. xi. 184 Some of the counties in the neighbourhood of London, petitioned the parliament against the extension of the turnpike roads into the remoter counties. View more context for this quotation
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation Introd. 35 It was not..till after the peace of Paris, in 1763, that turnpike-roads began to be extended to all parts of the kingdom.
1845 J. R. McCulloch Treat. Taxation 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.
1875 W. S. Hayward Love against World 16 After an hour's ride, by cross-country lanes and by-paths, they struck into the turnpike road.
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