tumbril


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tum·brel

or tum·bril  (tŭm′brəl)
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 fall, perhaps of Germanic origin and akin to English tumble.]
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tumbril

A two-wheeled cart used to take condemned prisoners to the guillotine.
Dictionary of Unfamiliar Words by Diagram Group Copyright © 2008 by Diagram Visual Information Limited
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Noun1.tumbril - a farm dumpcart for carrying dungtumbril - a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution
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 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.
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.
"My friend, I don't care a pinch of snuff for the whole Royal Artillery establishment--officers, men, tumbrils, waggons, horses, guns, and ammunition."
My mind hikes its way to the outburst by first time MP Mahua Moitra on the floor of the house and her list of seven deadly sins in which she not only manages to produce the kernel of a screenplay for Leila to adapt but also enough material to prove the tumbril is on the move.
The handbrake is off and we are rolling downhill faster than a speeding tumbril. The Romans fed Christians to the lions.
And we had two bass drums, one tightly-strung, the other as cavernous as the sound of a tumbril, in response to Verdi's detailed instructions.
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But it did for David Cameron as surely as if he had been carted away in a tumbril and George Osborne is sure to follow.
A tumbril of words, Mossbawn, scree, bullaun, Unknown to me, deeply known, Echoed down a long chamber inside.