or timmy-whiskey or whiskey, subs. phr. (old).—A light one-horse chaise without a hood (GROSE).

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  1772.  BRIDGES, A Burlesque Translation of Homer, 481.

        In spite of him these youths so frisky,
Went out and hir’d a TIMMY-WHISKY.

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  1774.  FOOTE, The Cozeners, i. A journey to Tyburn in a TIM-WHISKY and two would have concluded your travels.

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  d. 1832.  CRABBE, Works, II. 174. WHISKEYS and gigs and curricles.

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  1834.  SOUTHEY, The Doctor, Interch. xiv. It is not like the difference between … a WHISKEY and a TIM-WHISKEY, that is to say, no difference at all.

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  1884.  S. DOWELL, A History of Taxation and Taxes in England, III. 227. The increased taxation of the curricle had the effect of bringing into existence the less expensive gig, a development or an imitation of a two-wheeled carriage known in the country as a WHISKEY.

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