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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
turnpike .
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Examples
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The road got fixed after a fashion, here and there -- a bridge mended, a ditch cleaned out, the loose stones removed, a hole filled up, or a short section "turnpiked" -- but the days were eight - hour days and they did not sit heavy upon us.
My Boyhood John Burroughs 1879
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Huron tract, was already cleared out, the full width of sixty-six feet, preparatory to its being turnpiked.
Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) Samuel Strickland 1835
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