high road vs turnpike

high road

noun
  • A main road or highway. 

  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high, road. 

  • A course of action which is dignified, honourable, or respectable. 

turnpike

noun
  • A toll road, especially a toll expressway. 

  • A trajectory on a finite time interval that satisfies an optimality criterion which is associated with a cost function. 

  • A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages, animals, and sometimes people, until a toll is paid, 

  • A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of animals, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile. 

  • A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a cheval de frise. 

  • A winding stairway. 

verb
  • To form (a road, etc.) in the manner of a turnpike road, or into a rounded form, as the path of a road. 

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