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

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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