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Definition of Turnpikes
1. turnpike [n] - See also: turnpike
Lexicographical Neighbors of Turnpikes
Literary usage of Turnpikes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1907)
"Until better means of transportation were provided the turnpikes were important
channels of ... Failure of the turnpikes to meet the country's demands. ..."
2. A History of Commerce by Clive Day (1914)
"Until better means of transportation were provided the turnpikes were important
channels of ... Failure of the turnpikes to meet the country's demands. ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law Relating to Private Corporations in Pennsylvania by Frank Marshall Eastman (1908)
"Abandonment of Portions of turnpikes Separated From the Longest Continuous ...
turnpikes are Public Highways. 1749. On the Forfeiture of the Charter of a ..."
4. Proceedings of the ... Annual Meeting by County Surveyors' Institute (Ohio)., Ohio Society of Professional Engineers (1896)
"Later the proximity of the national turnpike led to the use of limestone for the
surface of about eleven miles of one-mile assessment turnpikes in the ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Negligence by Thomas Gaskell Shearman, Amasa Angell Redfield, Robert Gould Street (1913)
"turnpikes are highways. 386. Maintenance of road. 386a. Liable where defective
condition is combined with fright of horse. § 387. ..."
6. The Law of Real Property and Other Interests in Land by Herbert Thorndike Tiffany (1903)
"turnpikes. turnpikes are highways, the use of which by a member of the public is
... turnpikes are usually, if not always, established by private ..."
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