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▸ noun: A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid,
▸ noun: (Scotland) A winding stairway.
▸ noun: (military) A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.
▸ noun: (chiefly US) A toll road, especially a toll expressway.
▸ noun: (mathematical economics) A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.
▸ verb: To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road, or into a rounded form, as the path of a road.
Similar:
turn-stile,
toll road,
tollway,
passimeter,
toll-bar,
toll plaza,
stile,
tollgate,
turnstile,
tollbridge,
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