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.
1626, Ben Jonson, The Staple of News, ActIII, Scene1, Yale Studies in English Vol.28, New York: Henry Holt, 1905, p.58,[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.500387/page/n121]
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A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid.
: I moue vpon my axell, like a turne-pike, / Fit my face to the parties, and become / Straight one of them.
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(Scotland) A winding stairway.
1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., pp.9-10,[https://archive.org/details/b30518362/page/9/mode/1up]
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