turnpikeTURN'PIKE, n. [turn and pike.] Strictly, a frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles, and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of breasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms. TURN'PIKE, v.t. To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; to throw the path of a road into a rounded form. |