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- noun Plural form of
turnpike .
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Examples
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We were stopped at least three times at barriers or gates, here called turnpikes, to pay a duty or toll which, however small, as being generally paid in their copper coinage, in the end amounted to some shillings.
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We were stopped at least three times at barriers or gates, here called turnpikes, to pay a duty or toll which, however small, as being generally paid in their copper coinage, in the end amounted to some shillings.
Travels in England in 1782 Karl Philipp Moritz 1775
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The turnpikes were a vital avenue of trade and settlement in the years before the Civil War and important for logistics and troop movements during the war.
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The turnpikes were a vital avenue of trade and settlement in the years before the Civil War and important for logistics and troop movements during the war.
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"That's all the kind of turnpikes your mamma knew any thing about, I reckon," said Miss Fortune, in a tone that conveyed the notion that Mrs. Montgomery's education had been very incomplete.
The Wide, Wide World 1892
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"That's all the kind of turnpikes your Mamma knew anything about, I reckon," said Miss Fortune, in a tone that conveyed the notion that Mrs. Montgomery's education had been very incomplete.
The Wide, Wide World Susan Warner 1852
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"That's all the kind of turnpikes your mamma knew anything about, I reckon," said Miss Fortune, in a tone that conveyed the notion that Mrs. Montgomery's education had been very incomplete.
The Wide, Wide World Susan Warner 1852
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"turnpikes" were built by private companies, which charged tolls for their use.
Community Civics and Rural Life Arthur William Dunn 1897
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So evil that the rings of her trunk had burned backwards in time, the branches of her arms, scarred by pink ribbons which made parallel highways with the turnpikes of her blue veins.
The Ghost of Water, the Ghost of Dreaded Fall Amy Geeleher Burt 2011
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It would have doubled the capacity of trains between New Jersey and New York, easing traffic on New Jersey's turnpikes.
Joel Epstein: New Jersey's Gift to Metro Riders in LA Joel Epstein 2010
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