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.
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.
A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval-de-frise.
(from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid
an expressway on which tolls are collected
an Interstate where fees are collected from the road's users
a toll road that you have to pay to drive on
A toll road built by Act of Parliament and controlled by gates or turnpikes.
A road on which tolls are collected. This term is derived from the toll bar which was in a shape resembling a pike.
Turnpikes, paved roadways, were built as private business ventures in the early nineteenth century. Promoters charged tolls for the use of the pikes to recover their costs of construction and make a profit. Some were built by states, and the federal government financed the National Road. Turnpikes were one kind of internal improvement.