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# turnpike

«turnpike» in Mova's school dictionary: **A road with a toll gate, where travellers paid money to pass** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (turnpikes); old use

### meaning for a pupil

A road with a toll gate, where travellers paid money to pass. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turnpike/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a toll gate on an old road in a story

### examples

- The toll-keeper stood at the turnpike gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turnpike/#x1)
- Each carriage paid a toll at the turnpike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turnpike/#x2)
- The coach stopped at the turnpike. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turnpike/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths, though a toll is a sum of money paid

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «turnpike» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turnpike/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.