Tumbrel

a two-wheeled tumbrel: According to the OED, a tumbrel is a cart constructed so that the body tilts backwards to empty out the load, such as a dung-cart. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I think a tumbrel remark is either one you make in a tumbrel on your way to the guillotine cause a tumbrel is the wagon that carried French aristocrats to the chopping block or it's the type of remark that could lead to people wanting to put you in a tumbrel, as in "let them eat cake." ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Next to be hauled out of the tumbrel and up to the guillotine: Kendra Chantelle, Ashthon Jones, and Karen Rodriguez. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Sister Charlotte of the Resurrection, seventy-eight and an invalid, having been thrown roughly to the pavement from the tumbrel, was heard to speak words of forgiveness and encouragement to her tormentor. ❋ John (2009)

The doyen of modern Dickens studies, Michael Slater, envisaged him in "Charles Dickens" 2009 as the kind of writer whose every private experience is hitched to the lurching tumbrel of his creative imagination. ❋ D.J. Taylor (2011)

There was the whiff of a tumbrel depositing yet another victim before the guillotine in the Place de la Concorde. ❋ Michael Roberts (2012)

He was removed from the magistracy after having, in 1800, jumped into the tumbrel taking Sarah Lloyd, a servant girl, to the scaffold, and harangued the crowd about the injustice of the sentence. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Spelling has been guillotined by tabloids and others for a tumbrel of offenses — her nose job, her feud with her mother, her breast-augmentation surgery, her acting on Beverly Hills, 90210, her appearances with her husband on the reality show Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Take, for instance, the following piece of purple prose, full of sentences just begging to hop into the tumbrel and ride to the guillotine. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But they pulled them out of the tumbrel, shoved them beneath the guillotine, and . . . it was over. ❋ KAREN ROBARDS (2010)

As she unlocked her carved mahogany front door, she heard the tumbrel roll of feet scrambling down a staircase. ❋ Susan Fales-Hill (2010)

And what better way is there to insult the scombroid landlord (resembling a mackerel) or that tumbrel of a brother-in-law (a person who is drunk to the point of vomiting) than by calling him by his rightful name? ❋ Unknown (2009)

It†™ s long been known to magazine journalists that there†™ s an audience out there that†™ s hungry to see the grasping and vainglorious and undeservedly successful (“douchebags” or “asshats, ” in Gawker parlance) put in the tumbrel and taken to their doom. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There will not be such a letter, because no law professor will expose him or her self to the academic tumbrel and guillotine. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A man condemned to death is listening to his confessor in the tumbrel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Had a tumbrel or two been available when Clinton and WEF president Klaus Schwab took the stage, who knows what would have happened? ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Marie Antoinette] [saying], "[Let them eat cake]," is a tumbrel remark. ❋ George William Edward Johnson (2008)