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Wiktionary

  1. n. A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a cucking-stool.
  2. n. A cart which opens at the back to release its load.
  3. n. A cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to the guillotine during the French Revolution.
  4. n. UK, obsolete A basket or cage of osiers, willows, or the like, to hold hay and other food for sheep.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution

Etymologies

  1. From Old French tumberel (in Anglo-Latin tumberellus), from tomber, tumber ("to fall"). (Wiktionary)

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  • Jubjub Something of his sad freedom
    As he rode the tumbril
    Should come to me, driving,
    Saying the names

    Tollund, Grauballe, Nebelgard,
    Watching the pointing hands
    Of country people,
    Not knowing their tongue.

    Out here in Jutland
    In the old man-killing parishes
    I will feel lost,
    Unhappy and at home.

    from "The Tollund Man" by Seamus Heaney Jun 11, 2010

  • chained_bear See also tumbrel. Oct 10, 2008

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