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turnpiking
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
the making of a turnpike road.
Quotations
1826
Along the "street" they are getting them up, and ploughing the sides, and with a kind of large shovel, having a handle, (called a scraper) and a yoke of oxen, the dirt is drawn into the centre and rounded, which is called "turnpiking."
1863
"There," said the Canadian, pointing to a ploughed line along each side of the road, whence the earth had been thrown up in the centre by a scraper; "that's turnpiking."
1903
Sometimes the turnpiking is only half completed, or again the gravel has been left in great heaps, which give to your carriage the motion of a vessel at sea as it passes over the lumps.
2n.
See turnpike road 1927 quote.
See: turnpike road
Quotations
1830
The turnpiking is entirely too narrow for two teams to pass each other.