turnpike (ternpik)

[ Love storms his lips, and takes the fortre e in, For all the bristled turn - pikes of his chin. F. Beaumont, Anti plat on. The road is by this means so continually torn that it is one of the worst turnpikes round about London. Defoe , Tour through Great Britain, II. 178. ( Davies .) 5. A turnpike-stair. [Scotch.] - Turnpike road, a road on which turnpikes or toll-gates are established by law, and which are made and kept in repair by the toll collected from carriages, wagons, cattle, etc., which travel on them, or by the income derived from farming such toll.Turnpike sailor, a beggar who goes about dre ed as a sailor. [Thieves' cant.] I became a turnpike sailor , as it's called, and went out as one of the Shallow Brigade, wearing a Guernsey shirt and drawers, or tattered trowsers. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, I. 415. turnpike-man (tėrn'pik-man), n . A man who collects tolls at a turnpike or toll-gate. How in a trice the turnpike -men Their gates wide open threw. Cowper , John Gilpin.