अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

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

A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road in repair; a tollgate.

A turnpike road.

A winding stairway.

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

To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road; into a rounded form, as the path of a road.