Definition of "turnpikes" [turnpikes]

• Plural form of turnpike. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• ""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."