tim-whiskey

• tim-whisky

tim-whiskey (plural tim-whiskeys or tim-whiskies)

1. (historical) A kind of carriage drawn by one horse.
   • 1769, Francis Gentleman, The Stratford Jubilee, London: T. Lowndes and J. Bell, Act 1, Scene 1, p. 5,

     Lo the call is obey’d—see! see, they approach,

     From nimble tim whisky, to the lumb’ring old coach.

   • 1778, George Colman, Prologue to The Suicide, in Prose on Several Occasions: Accompanied with Some Pieces in Verse, London: T. Cadel, 1787, Volume 3, p. 225,

     With Two Act Pieces what machines agree?

     Buggies, Tim-whiskies, or squeez’d Vis a-vis,

     Where two sit face to face, and knee to knee.

   • 1824, Walter Scott, Saint Ronan's Well, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, Volume 2, Chapter 1, p. 6,

     It was a two-wheeled vehicle, which claimed none of the modern appellations of tilbury, tandem, dennet, or the like; but aspired only to the humble name of that almost forgotten accommodation, a whiskey; or, according to some authorities, a tim-whiskey.

   • 1837, Robert Southey, The Doctor, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, Volume 4, Interchapter 14, p. 43,

     It is not like 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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