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What does turnpike mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word turnpike? Here's what it means.

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; a turnstile.
  2. A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid; a tollgate.
  3. (Scotland) A winding stairway.
  4. (military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
  5. A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
  6. (mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
Verb
  1. To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
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