shunpike
English
Etymology
Blend of shun + turnpike
Noun
shunpike (plural shunpikes)
- A side road or route.
- 1988: Joseph Dow's History of Hampton (New Hampshire), →ISBN, (referring to a bridge built to avoid a turnpike toll)
- In 1821 the selectmen were petitioned to lay out a new road in Hampton, beginning at Vittum's corner, so called, [junction of Towle Farm Road & Exeter Road] and running to the line of Hampton Falls at the shunpike bridge, so called.
- 1988: Joseph Dow's History of Hampton (New Hampshire), →ISBN, (referring to a bridge built to avoid a turnpike toll)