Tumbrels

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Definitions and meanings of "Tumbrels"

What do we mean by tumbrels?

A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a cucking stool.

A cart which opens at the back to release its load.

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.

A comment made by a rich person that makes the lower class think of lampposts and guillotines. Urban Dictionary

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The word "tumbrels" in example sentences

Avedon is right, this is the attitude that set the tumbrels rolling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Braddock moved the tool tumbrels to the head of the column, but that did not speed the road along. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

That the late Kerry Packer could gloat about his almost tax free status stinks in a way that makes me think of tumbrels and guillotines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Yet for all the talk of an anti-incumbent fever sweeping the land, the image of angry voters manning the tumbrels and throwing the rascals out, consider the special congressional election for the late Democratic Congressman John Murtha's seat in southwestern Pennsylvania. ❋ Michael Winship (2010)

Like the tumbrels, thought Mary, grimly, on their way to the place of execution. ❋ Rose Melikan (2010)

I was begging for an audience with Ambassador Whitworth when I got word that they were amongst those who had been loaded into the tumbrels that morning. ❋ KAREN ROBARDS (2010)

Perhaps indulging his closely held belief in enlightened self interest, the old soothsayer hears the tumbrels rolling and sees the benefit of these exercises. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's a completely win-win situation for everyone execpt those who happen to own health insurance companies and, perhaps, the Council of Catholic Bishops, but even so, it's not like it's into the tumbrels with them ... and even they'd still be able to get free health care. by ❋ Unknown (2009)

These were not revolutions where monarchs were dragged off in tumbrels to the guillotine or lined up against a wall and shot. ❋ Michael Goldfarb (2009)

Beware throwing public-sector leaders into tumbrels. ❋ Mark Reckons (2009)

The tumbrels will not come creaking into the square with Limbaugh, Beck, Dobbs, Hannity, et al, trussed and hooded, the guillotine waiting, the crowd shrieking and dancing. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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

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