tumbril
Meanings
Plural: tumbrils
Noun
- a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution
- A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool.
- A cart well suited to dumping its load easily, being single-axled and also often having a hinged tailboard.
- A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
- A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.
Origin / Etymology
From Old French tumberel (modern French tombereau, in Anglo-Latin tumberellus), from tomber, tumber (“to fall”).
Scrabble Score: 11
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Words With Friends Score: 15
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