tilbury

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/ˈtɪlbəɹi/ (UK)

Definition of tilbury

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(historical)A small open two-wheeled carriage.

“Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.”
“If she was jocular, he used to revolve her jokes in his mind, and explode over them half an hour afterwards in the street, to the surprise of the groom in the tilbury […]”

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noun

(historical)A small open two-wheeled carriage.

“Of late years, cabriolets, and English stanhopes, and tilburys, have been introduced into St. Petersburgh; but the real national carriage for the town is the Droshky.”
“If she was jocular, he used to revolve her jokes in his mind, and explode over them half an hour afterwards in the street, to the surprise of the groom in the tilbury […]”
(obsolete, slang)Sixpence (formerly the fare from Gravesend to Tilbury Fort).

name

(countable, uncountable)A town and port in Thurrock borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ639761).
(countable, uncountable)A community, formerly a town, in Chatham-Kent municipality, Ontario, Canada.
(countable, uncountable)A habitational surname from Old English.

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From Tilbury (“surname of the inventor”).

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