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timwhisky
† timˈwhisky Obs. Also 8–9 -whiskey, (8 timmy whisky, -whiskee). [A compound of whisky, a light one-horse carriage: first element uncertain.] A kind of high light carriage, seated for one or two, drawn by a single horse or by two horses driven ‘tandem’; a gig; a whisky.1764 T. Bridges Homer Travest....
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whisky
▪ I. whisky, whiskey, n.1 (ˈhwɪskɪ) Also 8 -kie, -kee. [Short for whiskybae, etc. (Gael. uisgebeatha lit. ‘water of life’), though this is not actually evidenced so early (but Ramsay has usque for usquebaugh, q.v., in 1728). In modern trade usage, Scotch whisky and Irish whiskey are thus distinguish...
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