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Turnstile   /tˈərnstˌaɪl/   Listen
Turnstile

noun
1.
A gate consisting of a post that acts as a pivot for rotating arms; set in a passageway for controlling the persons entering.





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"Turnstile" Quotes from Famous Books



... down many flights of steps, into the bowels of the earth; but there were lights there, and presently we passed through a sort of turnstile, and saw lengthening out before us two endless open tubes, of diameter twice or thrice the height of a man, with people walking in them, and disappearing in their interminable perspective. We, too, entered and began to traverse them, ...
— Hawthorne and His Circle • Julian Hawthorne


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