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tumbril
English
Alternative forms
- tumbrel
Etymology
From Old French tumberel (in Anglo-Latin tumberellus), from tomber, tumber (“to fall”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?mb??l/
Noun
tumbril (plural tumbrils)
- A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a cucking stool.
- A cart which opens at the back to release its load.
- 1800, The Times, 17 Mar 1800, p.3 col. B:
- 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 […]
- 1800, The Times, 17 Mar 1800, p.3 col. B:
- A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
- 1848, The Times, 26 Jun 1848, p.4 col. B:
- It is now ascertained that the tumbrel and the torches which figured in the massacre-scene of the 23d of February were prepared beforehand […]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 370:
- If there would be former freemasons on the Committee of Public Safety during the Terror, they would be numbered too in the ranks of the émigré armies and counter-revolutionary Chouan rebels, and in tumbrils bound for the guillotine.
- 1848, The Times, 26 Jun 1848, p.4 col. B:
- (Britain, obsolete) A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
Translations
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umbril
English
Noun
umbril (plural umbrils)
- (obsolete) An umbrere.
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