单词 | tilbury |
释义 | tilburyn. 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. 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). < n.1796 |
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