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单词 tilbury
释义

tilburyn.

/ˈtɪlbəri/
Etymology: < proper name Tilbury, in sense 1 that of the inventor, in sense 2 of the place: see quot. 1796 at sense 2.
1. A light open two-wheeled carriage, fashionable in the first half of the 19th cent.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > carriage for conveying persons > [noun] > types of carriage > light carriage > two-wheeled
timwhisky1768
whisky1769
gig1791
rib chair1795
shandry1802
trap1807
tilbury1814
dennet1818
chaise-cart1821
spring-cart1823
go-cart1824
jockey-cart1840
guinguette1852
Catherine1861
croydon1880
stolkjaerre1885
Ralli car1886
1814 Sporting Mag. 43 240 Fifteen tilburies, drawn by fine blood horses.
1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes I. vi. 193 Gigs, phaetons, large-wheeled tilburies, and private carriages.
1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. iii. 82 We stood waiting for his tilbury.
2. A sixpenny piece; sixpence. slang. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > English coins > [noun] > sixpence
tester1560
half-shilling1561
teston1577
mill sixpence1592
crinklepouch1593
sixpencea1616
testrila1616
piga1640
sice1660
Simon1699
sow's-baby1699
kick1725
cripple1785
grunter1785
tilbury1796
tizzy1804
tanner1811
bender1836
lord of the manor1839
snid1839
sprat1839
fiddler1846
sixpenny bit or piece1897
zac1898
sprasey1905
1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Tilbury, sixpence; so called from its formerly being the fare for crossing over from Gravesend to Tilbury fort.
1818 J. Haslewood in Brathwait's Barnabæ Itinerarium (new ed.) Introd. 43 As if a man..should say, ‘Arriving at Tilbury-fort, I gave a beggar a Tilbury (sixpence) for the name's sake.’
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 218 Tilbury, a sixpence.

Derivatives

ˈtilbury'd adj. of driving gloves, having the finger-palms strengthened with leather to resist the friction of the reins.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for hands > [adjective] > types of gloves
cut-fingered1591
prick-seamed1624
right-handed1700
fingered1739
gauntleted1810
tilbury'd1901
ambidextrous1919
1901 Trade Catalogue Knitted tilbury'd gloves.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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