Meaning of tilbury | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A small open two-wheeled carriage.
   historical
2. A town and port in Thurrock borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ639761).
   countable, uncountable
3. Sixpence (formerly the fare from Gravesend to Tilbury Fort).
   obsolete, slang
4. A community, formerly a town, in Chatham-Kent municipality, Ontario, Canada.
   countable, uncountable
5. A habitational surname from Old English.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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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