turnpike

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Synonyms: turnpikes, hornpike, turnmire, turnpiked, urnlike

Antonyms: turnpikes, hornpike, turnmire, turnpiked, urnlike

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Noun

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.
2. A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a [[toll]] is paid.
3. {{lb|en|Scotland}} A [[winding]] [[stairway]].
4. {{lb|en|military}} A [[beam]] filled with [[spike]]s to [[obstruct]] [[passage]]; a [[cheval de frise]].
5. {{senseid|en|toll road}} {{lb|en|chiefly|US}} A [[toll road]], especially a toll [[expressway]]. In some places the clipped version, [[pike]], is used for roads without tolls.
6. {{lb|en|mathematical|_|economics}} A [[trajectory]] on a [[finite]] [[time interval]] that satisfies an [[optimality]] [[criterion]] which is associated with a [[cost]] [[function]].

Verb

1. {{lb|en|transitive}} To [[form]] (a [[road]], etc.) in the [[manner]] of a turnpike road, or into a [[rounded]] [[form]], as the [[path]] of a [[road]].

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