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tum·brel or tum·bril (t

1. A two-wheeled cart, especially a farmer's cart that can be tilted to dump a load.

2. A crude cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their place of execution, as during the French Revolution.

[Middle English tumberell, from Old French tomberel, from tomber, to let fall, perhaps of Germanic origin.]

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tumbril - a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution

tumbrel

dumpcart - a cart that can be tilted to empty contents without handling

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