单词 | shun-pike |
释义 | > as lemmasshun-pike shun-pike n. U.S. (see quot. 1911). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > road > [noun] > main or major road > turnpike or toll-road > road constructed to evade shun-pike1853 1853 Albany Evening Atlas 9 Apr. 4 The Oswego Canal..has been called a ‘shun pike’. Produce sent by Lake Ontario and the Oswego Canal, avoids tolls on the canals west of Syracuse. 1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. ii. 35 Ef your soul Don't sneak thru shun-pikes so 's to save the toll. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 1053/1 A shunpike, or road constructed to facilitate evasion of tolls on a turnpike road, may be closed by injunction. < as lemmas |
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