A turnpike road; a highway.
1863. We charged down the pike for six miles or more, captured nearly two hundred wagons of the most elegant kind, and about 12,000 of the most magnificent mules I ever saw, besides many prisoners and runaway negroes.—‘Southern Hist. Soc. Papers,’ xi. 321 (1883).
1864. With the assistance of our artillery, the “pike” was cleared of the enemy before the flanking column reached that point.—Id., xii. 228 (1884).
1882. He pointed to a house a few hundred yards further down the pike, and told us that the horse hitched there belonged to a Federal soldier who had stopped there as the last squad had passed through a few minutes before.—Id., x. 514.
1908. Horseback riders had been pouring into town over the smooth, graveled pike.—Eliza C. Hall, ‘Aunt Jane of Kentucky,’ p. 107.
1908. I remembered hearin’ a hack go by on the pike the night before, and wondered to myself what was up.—Id., p. 128.
