| 单词 | pike-keeper |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspike-keeper pike-keeper n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road > turnpike or toll-road > barrier on > keeper of turnpike-keeper1738 turnpike-man1769 pike-keeper1836 pikeman1841 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xxii. 228 ‘What do you mean by a pike-keeper?’ inquired Mr. Peter Magnus. ‘The old 'un means a turnpike keeper, gen'lm'n,’ observed Mr. Weller, in explanation. 1991 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 18 Aug. 12 By the end of the nineteenth [century], they [sc. turnpikes] had more or less withered away, victims of the railway age, public antipathy, corrupt pike-keepers and mountainous debts. < as lemmas |
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