Tumbril

Word TUMBRIL
Character 7
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Pronunciations /ˈtʌmbɹɪl/

Definitions and meanings of "Tumbril"

What do we mean by tumbril?

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.

Intentionally rounding up human beings and placing them on mass transit to ship them away or out of an area. Usually these are cattle cars and the purpose is not good. Urban Dictionary

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The word "tumbril" in example sentences

At the farm sales, it was impossible not to rescue machines with names like the Nicolson swathe-turner and such things as enormous hay rakes originally designed to be drawn by horses, wooden bullock carts, or the kind of miniature tipping trailer known as a tumbril, one of the most useful things any farm could possess. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Well, the "tumbril," as we called it, arrived each day for nearly a week, and we drove off gaily to the appointed spot and saturated ourselves in the characteristics of the land we were shortly to attack. ❋ Bruce Bairnsfather (N/A)

But ABC's "The Whole Truth," which, by all accounts, is next in line to be tossed on the tumbril, added nearly 860,000 viewers. ❋ Lisa De Moraes (2010)

Walking to the turbolift, and riding it up to the bridge, he almost felt that he was riding the tumbril toward the guillotine. ❋ David A. McIntee (2011)

Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner ❋ Unknown (2011)

Anyway, as the tumbril bearing Grant came into view, and we got shots of toothless crones in the crowd getting on with their knitting – or their modern equivalent, West Ham fans looking glum – the Hammers' latest signing, Wayne Bridge, was demonstrating that even a magic Chris Waddle cheque book might not provide an automatic solution to the club's troubles. ❋ Unknown (2011)

They make great speeches as they ride the tumbril to the guillotine. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He mounted the tumbril with him, he mounted the scaffold with him. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Accordingly, the tumbril in which the criminal was conveyed to execution was attended by far the greater proportion of the inhabitants of Perth. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I feel like I've just rolled up in the tumbril to be only partly decapitated, because before I can get the gist I have to leave to meet Amy Holmes so that we can chat and be miked before our own panel. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Finally, "the best of times, worst of times" phrasing seems especially and poignantly apt for the novel's very last chapter, as a tumbril bears the selfless Sydney Carton to the guillotine at the height of the Terror. ❋ Bennett, Jonathan (2008)

In fact, I hate the whole handbag-industrial complex, and come the revolution I will cheer as they are driven through the streets in a tumbril. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Take, for instance, the following piece of purple prose, full of sentences just begging to hop into the tumbril and ride to the guillotine. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Ursula unfortunately met the tumbril of victims among whom was ❋ Unknown (2006)

Drusilla endured the measures with all the delight of a French aristocrat out for a ride in a tumbril. ❋ Laurens, Stephanie (2003)

During [World War II], the German [government] practiced tumbrilitis against [innocent people]. ❋ Someone123454321 (2009)

[You sir] are a tumbrill! I [jolly] say mate, [you done] turnd into a tumbrill ❋ LordofGay69 (2018)

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