tilbury

noun

Definition of tilburynext
as in surrey

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  1. surrey
  2. landau
  3. phaeton
  4. stagecoach
  5. chariot
  6. hackney
  7. cab
Noun
  • When Tran rang it, Daisy and Kelsey pulled up in a surrey.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 14 Aug. 2024
  • The clanging warning that a family in a four-wheel surrey pedicab is rolling up behind you.
    Tim Ebner, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
Definition of surrey
Noun
  • It's also understood that King Charles, 75, will attend Trooping the Colour amid his own cancer treatment, and conduct the review while seated in an Ascot landau carriage alongside Queen Camilla.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 30 May 2024
  • Margaret’s son David Armstrong-Jones, the Earl of Snowdown, joined Charles and Camilla in their landau, while her daughter Lady Sarah Chatto traveled in the third carriage with her husband, Daniel.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 22 June 2023
Definition of landau
Noun
  • Until the last couple of episodes, everything appears to be ripping along like a brand-new two-horse phaeton on a bright spring day.
    Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 13 June 2024
  • An open touring car, a phaeton conveyed the essence of speed and performance, and was built for real sporting types.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 26 Sep. 2022
Definition of phaeton
Noun
  • Banners with photos of veterans and dead soldiers peer over sidewalks and legend has it that Jesse James lived here in an age of stagecoaches and outlaws.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2024
  • The route’s first iteration was as a stagecoach line north of Phoenix.
    Shelby Slade, The Arizona Republic, 13 Sep. 2024
Definition of stagecoach
Noun
  • The small asteroid, which is little more than 3 miles in diameter, approaches so close to the sun that it was named for the son of the sun-god Helios, who in Greek mythology lost control of his father's chariot and set the Earth ablaze.
    Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Dec. 2024
  • But oh my, what a sequence that final chariot race is.
    James Grebey, Vulture, 22 Nov. 2024
Definition of chariot
Noun
  • Acceptable modes of transit include a 1969 Mini Cooper, any model of Range Rover that Prince Philip once drove, or a hackney carriage.
    Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Feinberg is still driving under the same hackney carriage medallion that he was issued in 1975, according to police.
    Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
Definition of hackney
Noun
  • White was inside the cab of his rig, parked on Lucas Lane adjacent to Love's Travel Stop.
    Kirsten Fiscus, The Tennessean, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The alleged shooter is seen taking a cab at around 7 a.m. on the Upper West Side and at uptown bus station about 45 minutes later, according to police.
    James Powel, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of cab
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