tilbury

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UK/ˈtɪlbəɹi/

noun

A small open two-wheeled carriage.

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Meanings

tilbury1

nountilbury (plural tilburies)

plural tilburies

  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
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    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).

Tilbury2

proper nounTilbury (countable and uncountable, plural Tilburys)

plural Tilburys · alternative Tilby

  1. countableuncountableA town and port in Thurrock borough, Essex, England (OS grid ref TQ639761).
  2. countableuncountableA community, formerly a town, in Chatham-Kent municipality, Ontario, Canada.
  3. countableuncountableA habitational surname from Old English.

Origin

tilbury · noun

From Tilbury (“surname of the inventor”).

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Tilbury · proper noun

From the Old English personal name Tila + byriġ, the dative case of burg (“fortified place”).

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APA

tilbury. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tilbury

MLA

“tilbury.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tilbury. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “tilbury,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/tilbury.

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