Dictionary Entry
turnpike
turnpike is a 8-letter English word with 8 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 17 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. See Turnstile, 1.
- 2noun
A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate.
- 3noun
A turnpike road.
- 4noun
A winding stairway.
- 5noun
A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.
- 6transitive verb
To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
- 7noun
an expressway on which tolls are collected
- 8noun
(from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
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