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tumbrel
[ tuhm-bruhl ]
noun
- one of the carts used during the French Revolution to convey victims to the guillotine.
- a farmer's cart, especially one for hauling manure, that can be tilted to discharge its load.
- Obsolete. a two-wheeled covered cart accompanying artillery for carrying tools, ammunition, etc.
tumbrel
/ ˈtʌmbrəl /
noun
- a farm cart for carrying dung, esp one that tilts backwards to deposit its load. A cart of this type was used to take condemned prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution
- (formerly) a covered cart that accompanied artillery in order to carry ammunition, tools, etc
- See ducking stoolan obsolete word for a ducking stool
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Example Sentences
You may see many such crowding round the guillotine or the tumbrel in pictures of the French Revolution.
There were some thirty men in this tumbrel, whose sole crime was foolish exaltation of thought and threatening language.
In some places, millers, if detected stealing corn, were placed in the tumbrel.
Her body bounded at every jolt of the tumbrel like a dead or broken thing; her gaze was dull and imbecile.
An inquisition held in 1383 discloses two markets, a merchant gild, pillory and tumbrel.
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