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tumbril

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tum·brel or tum·bril  (tmbrl)
n.
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.]
tumbril
Noun
a farm cart that tilts backwards to empty its load, which was used to take condemned prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution [Old French tumberel]
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Noun1.tumbriltumbril - 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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She knew the hour at which the tumbril with those condemned to die passed the windows; and at the first signal would close them and draw the curtain.
The Guardian by Pater, Walter Horatio View in context
The ship in which I sailed, was the first ever known to be driven within sight of that coast, and the king had given strict orders, that if at any time another appeared, it should be taken ashore, and with all its crew and passengers brought in a tumbril to Lorbrulgrud.
Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context
It is likely enough that in the rough outhouses of some tillers of the heavy lands adjacent to Paris, there were sheltered from the weather that very day, rude carts, bespattered with rustic mire, snuffed about by pigs, and roosted in by poultry, which the Farmer, Death, had already set apart to be his tumbrils of the Revolution.
A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context
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