turnpike

1. A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms.

   Drehschranke

2. A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid.

   (from 16th to 19th centuries) gates set across a road to prevent passage until a toll had been paid

3. (Scotland)A winding stairway.

4. A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise.

5. (US)A toll road, especially a toll expressway. In some places the clipped version, pike, is used for roads without tolls.

   Mautstraße

   пла́тная доро́гаplátnaja doróga, пла́тная автомоби́льная доро́гаplátnaja avtomobílʹnaja doróga

   пла́тна автомобі́льна доро́гаplátna avtomobílʹna doróha, пла́тна доро́гаplátna doróha

   an expressway on which tolls are collected

6. A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function.

1. At what time exactly did you enter the turnpike?

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2. If you don't get off here, you'll have to get on the turnpike.

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3. There's a highway you can take with no tolls that's just as quick as the turnpike.

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4. The Pennsylvania Turnpike has long sections with no shoulder.

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5. We always go through Amish country instead of taking the turnpike.

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