(1) (from 16th to 19th centuries
(2) An expressway on which tolls are collected
(1) In case you don't know, the turnpike is a toll road.
(2) The road, which became a turnpike in 1752, has seen many alterations in its history.
(3) Preliminary numbers show that about 8,000 to 10,000 vehicles were traveling on the road each day, a turnpike spokesman said.
(4) Manhattan's sleek skyscrapers are visible for an instant before the turnpike veers west and south towards Newark.
(5) Half the horses in London never see a turnpike gate.
(6) The trusts were responsible for the whole turnpike , and tolls paid for upkeep.
(7) Sighing in relief she headed toward the turnpike and eased her Eclipse into a comfortable sixty miles per hour.
(8) Ohio's section of highway 80 is called a turnpike , and they charge a toll to drive on it.
(9) It used to take four hours to get to London by coach along the turnpike road .
(10) How, for instance, would this system of turnpikes be regulated, if not by cameras?
(11) It was apparently built as a toll house on the old turnpike road between York and Scarborough.
(12) The carriageway profiles of the majority of Aberdeenshire turnpikes had a fall from the centre of the carriageway to the sides.
(13) The formation of drains beside and beneath turnpikes , an important facet of road construction, has received little comment in contemporary sources.
(14) The average length of a turnpike road was 30 miles, and the number of trustees varied from 15 to 237.
(15) A network of local roads and lanes fed the sub-region's turnpikes .
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