tilbury

What it means

1. historicalA small open two-wheeled carriage.

   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.

   1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital

   1 more example

   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 […]

   1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in Vanity Fair

2. obsoleteslangSixpence (formerly the fare from Gravesend to Tilbury Fort).

In a sentence

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.

1829, Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburgh, a journal of travels to and from that capital

Where it comes from

From Tilbury (“surname of the inventor”).