† timwhiskyn.
Obsolete.
A kind of high light carriage, seated for one or two, drawn by a single horse or by two horses driven ‘tandem’; a gig; a whisky.
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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
1768 H. Walpole Let. 9 Aug. in Corr. (1974) XXXIX. 106 The apprentices that flirt to Epsom in a timwhiskey.
1769 E. Burke Corr. (1844) I. 182 Lord Chatham passed by my door on Friday morning, in a jimwhiskee [error for tim-] drawn by two horses, one before the other.
1769 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 15 Aug. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2889 Many of our young nobility push for it [sc. fame] by driving a chaise and four, or a Tim Whisky.
1770 T. Bridges Burlesque Transl. Homer II. xi. 210 In spite of him these yonkers friskie Went out and hir'd a timmy whiskie.
1813 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 10 126.
1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well II. i. 6 That almost forgotten accommodation, a whiskey; or, according to some authorities, a tim-whiskey.
1837 R. Southey Doctor IV. 43 The difference between a Baptist and an Anabaptist, which Sir John Danvers said, is much the same as that between a Whiskey and a Tim whiskey, that is to say no difference at all.
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