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1853 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 2nd Ser. i. ii. 35 Ef your soul Don't sneak thru shun-pikes so 's to save the toll.
1911 XXVI. 1053/1 A shunpike, or road constructed to facilitate evasion of tolls on a turnpike road, may be closed by injunction.