turnpike man

A man who collects the tolls at a turnpike. marine; gō, pot, turnpike-road, s . A road on which turnpikes, or toll-gates, were established by law, and which are or were formerly made and kept in repair by the tolls collected from carriages, carts, wagons, cattle, ., which traveled on them. "In contemplation of a turnpike-road." Cowper: Retirement, 506.