Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The keeper of a turnpike; a tollman.
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Examples
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The pike-keeper inflicts daily a legion of infinitesimal annoyances.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 Various
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We purposely went back by the way we came, and greatly astonished the old pike-keeper by not only paying him his toll, but treble the value of the whisky he had bestowed on us, as well as two or three additional songs.
Paddy Finn William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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'What do you mean by a pike-keeper?' inquired Mr. Peter Magnus.
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841
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'What do you mean by a pike-keeper?' inquired Mr. Peter Magnus.
The Pickwick papers 1836
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"Be this the vay to Newmarket races?" inquired Jorrocks of the pike-keeper.
Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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