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- noun A kind of medieval torture device, later associated with a cucking-stool.
- noun A
cart which opens at the back to release its load. - noun A
cart used to carry condemned prisoners to their death, especially to theguillotine during the French Revolution. - noun UK, obsolete A
basket orcage ofosiers ,willows , or the like, to holdhay and otherfood forsheep .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a farm dumpcart for carrying dung; carts of this type were used to carry prisoners to the guillotine during the French Revolution
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Examples
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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.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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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.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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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.
Bullets & Billets Bruce Bairnsfather
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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.
"Hawaii Five-O" most DVR'd new show, early stats show Lisa de Moraes 2010
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Walking to the turbolift, and riding it up to the bridge, he almost felt that he was riding the tumbril toward the guillotine.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Walking to the turbolift, and riding it up to the bridge, he almost felt that he was riding the tumbril toward the guillotine.
Star Trek The Next Generation® David A. McIntee 2011
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Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner
Darren Bent won't chicken out when Aston Villa are in peri-peril | Martin Kelner 2011
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Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner
Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner 2011
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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.
Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner 2011
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They make great speeches as they ride the tumbril to the guillotine.
chained_bear commented on the word tumbril
See also tumbrel.
October 10, 2008
Jubjub commented on the word tumbril
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
June 11, 2010