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tumbril
/ˈtʌmbɹɪl/
noun 4
Collocations
2ADJ.
little, over, own
TUMBRIL + NOUN
cart
Definitions
noun
1
A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool.
2
A cart well suited to dumping its load easily, being single-axled and also often having a hinged tailboard.
They then confined the Dean, while they rifled the house of every valuable article, as well as plate and money; all that was portable they loaded on Mr. Carleton’s own tumbril, to which they harnessed his horse […]
They’d rigged a makeshift tent of sheeting over the little tumbril of a cart and they’d put up a sign at the front that gave her history and the number of people she was known to have eaten.
3
A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
It is now ascertained that the tumbrel and the torches which figured in the massacre-scene of the 23d of February were prepared beforehand […]
Out go Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney with all their 18th century frills and fripperies, like aristocrats deported on the tumbril.
4
A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — a farm dumpcart for carrying dung
- tumbrel
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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They then confined the Dean, while they rifled the house of every valuable article, as well as plate and money; all that was portable they loaded on Mr. Carleton’s own tumbril, to which they harnessed
Wiktionary02
They’d rigged a makeshift tent of sheeting over the little tumbril of a cart and they’d put up a sign at the front that gave her history and the number of people she was known to have eaten.
Wiktionary03
This is a sixteenth-century work done by a Flemish master, Pieter Bruegel, and it is called The Triumph of Death […] He studies the tumbrel filled with skulls.
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