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- noun Plural form of
tumbrel .
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Examples
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Avedon is right, this is the attitude that set the tumbrels rolling.
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Braddock moved the tool tumbrels to the head of the column, but that did not speed the road along.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Braddock moved the tool tumbrels to the head of the column, but that did not speed the road along.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Braddock moved the tool tumbrels to the head of the column, but that did not speed the road along.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Braddock moved the tool tumbrels to the head of the column, but that did not speed the road along.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Avedon is right, this is the attitude that set the tumbrels rolling.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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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.
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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: Congress Gets a Kick in the... Pants Michael Winship 2010
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Like the tumbrels, thought Mary, grimly, on their way to the place of execution.
The Mistaken Wife Rose Melikan 2010
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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.
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