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Definition of Tumbril
1. Noun. A farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
Definition of Tumbril
1. Noun. A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a cucking-stool. ¹
2. Noun. A cart which opens at the back to release its load. ¹
3. Noun. A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tumbril
1. tumbrel [n -S] - See also: tumbrel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tumbril
Literary usage of Tumbril
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. England and the English in the Eighteenth Century: Chapters in the Social by William Connor Sydney (1891)
"... provincial towns—Archaic customs—Bury Fair—Marriage and funeral ceremonies—Obsolete
social condition of their inhabitants—Local punishments—The tumbril, ..."
2. My Diary in India, in the Year 1858-9 by Sir William Howard Russell (1860)
"An English soldier and his "presner."—Desperate kick from a horse.—Mounted on a
tumbril.—A day of drowsy pain.—More dooly travelling.— General Penny killed. ..."
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