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tilbury|ˈtɪlbərɪ|
[f. proper name Tilbury, in sense 1 that of the inventor, in sense 2 of the place: see quot. 1796.]
1. A light open two-wheeled carriage, fashionable in the first half of the 19th c.
1814Sporting Mag. XLIII. 240 Fifteen tilburies, drawn by fine blood horses. 1842Dickens Amer. Notes vi. (1850) 55/2 Gigs, phaetons, large-wheeled tilburies, and private carriages. 1863‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage (1870) 44 We stood waiting for his tilbury.
†2. A sixpenny piece; sixpence. slang. Obs.
1796Grose Dict. Vulg. T. (ed. 3), Tilbury, sixpence; so called from its formerly being the fare for crossing over from Gravesend to Tilbury fort. 1805in Brathwait's Barnabees Jrnl. (1818) Introd. 43 note, As if a man..should say ‘Arriving at Tilbury-fort, I gave a beggar a Tilbury (sixpence) for the name's sake’. 1812J. H. Vaux Flash Dict., Tilbury, a sixpence.
Hence ˈtilbury'd a., of driving gloves, having the finger-palms strengthened with leather to resist the friction of the reins.
1901Trade Catalogue, Knitted tilbury'd gloves. |