- Major artery - A frame consisting of two bars crossing each other at
right angles and turning on a post or pin, to hinder the passage of
beasts, but admitting a person to pass between the arms; a turnstile.
See Turnstile, 1. - A gate or bar set across a road to stop carriages,
animals, and sometimes people, till toll is paid for keeping the road
in repair; a tollgate. - A turnpike road. - A winding stairway. - A beam filled with spikes to obstruct passage; a
cheval-de-frise. - To form, as a road, in the manner of a turnpike road;
into a rounded form, as the path of a road.