tumbril.
A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a ducking stool.
Meaning & usage
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.
Where this word comes from
From Old French tumberel (modern French tombereau, in Anglo-Latin tumberellus), from tomber, tumber (“to fall”).
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